The Furious Spinner

Judith Miller is out of jail. Have you read the New York Time version of what happened? And her version? They're long but worth it to see how badly this was all handled. If this is the newspaper of note for the Democrats, they (and we) are in trouble. Just the little bit about Miller's reporting "style" is frightening. It appears (to me) that she based a great deal of her reporting on "he said." You can't do that. You have to verify what someone said. Verify. Find another source. Then another. That's what a reporter is supposed to do—not just write down what someone says. (Stenographers to power.) And Miller's memory is strangely faulty. I've got a piss-poor memory, but she appears to have a worse one. If she truly has such a bad memory, she should take better notes. And if she really didn't remember who outted Victoria Plame to her, why did she could to jail to protect that source...the one she didn't remember? Plus the letter Libby (Cheney's chief of staff) wrote to her in jail seems like something out of a LeCarre novel, full of code and hints of what she should and should not say. Or else it isn't. See what you think. Plus, Miller had security clearance; she could look at secret documents. But she could not remember if she still had that clearance when she was talking to Libby, and she didn't think he knew either. WHAT? Should our government be giving security clearance to someone who doesn't really know/understand if, when, and how she has clearance. Or is she lying? She sounds truly clueless. (Funny how when people go to court they are suddenly stupid: me? Honeychild, I can't even boil water.) Please, Special Counsel Fitzgerald: arrest these people and get them out of our government. NOW. 0 comments

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