Group visits Washington to show support for jailed New York Times reporter

[sabra]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050809-2346-jailedjournalist.html

Group visits Washington to show support for jailed New York Times reporter

WASHINGTON – Press freedom advocates normally direct their wrath toward countries where harassment or abuse of journalists is the norm. Lately they have come up with a new target: the United States.
On Wednesday, a delegation from the Inter-American Press Association, a Western Hemisphere watchdog group, was making a pilgrimage to Washington to show solidarity with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6.

An evening meeting with Miller was planned at the Alexandria (Va.) Detention Center, where she was being held for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.

The mission is led by Alejo Miro Quesada, president of the IAPA and El Comercio, a Peruvian daily. The IAPA also planned to meet with the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to discuss a proposal before Congress meant to enable journalists to keep sources confidential.

[Burried News]

1. Judith Miller is bait. Chums in the water.

Wonder what faction of the GOP these guys are affiliated with?

[SteppingRazor]

3. To be fair, the IAPA is not at all GOP affiliated...

They protest against any journalist jailed anywhere in any country in the Americas. It's a press freedom organization, focused primarily on Central and South America (http://www.sipiapa.org/default.cfm). They'd take the part of the jailed journalist no matter what the circumstances, I imagine.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. And you know this because the name seems to imply impartiality?...

...So do a lot of other NeoCon-front organizations.

[SteppingRazor]

7. No, I know this because I'm familiar with the group n/t

[Burried News]

9. For the record I know nothing about the group.

But they wouldn't be the first group to be maneuvered into serving the NeoCons without their knowledge. Let's watch and see how this all plays out.

[displacedtexan]

4. I was just wondering which repuke paid for this trip. (eom)

[sasquatch]

2. Has she been shived yet?

*waits impatiantly*x(

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. "Group"?? Can't be much of a group if they all plan to visit....

...Miller at one time at the Detention Center.

[bemildred]

8. Hired stooges report to Washington for staged demonstration.

http://www.sipiapa.org/leadership/officers.cfm

[bushisanidiot]

10. Fitzgerald should be there to see what is said. She and the repukes

may be trying to use the group as a way to communicate with eachother about what her next step is.