Judith Miller Goes With What She's Got (Plame, WMD) - E&P

[TacticalPeek]

Judith Miller Goes With What She's Got

Perhaps nearing jail, the New York Times reporter, in public appearances, refuses to apologize for her WMD reporting. Meanwhile, she imperils her newspaper by rejecting out of hand the idea of a negotiated compromise with the prosecutor in the Plame case.

By William E. Jackson Jr.

(March 27, 2005) --

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She repeated several times at Berkeley (I have watched the video) her excuse that “you go with what you’ve got,” when referring both to her WMD sources and the unidentified leakers she is now protecting in the Plame case. Miller carries on with her now-tired argument that if she was duped by her unnamed sources on WMD, well, so was the Bush Administration.

Miller indicated she's not apologizing for believing there were WMDs in Iraq until the president does. “I think I was given information by people who believed the information they were giving the president,” she told Bergman. Ultimately, Miller said, she “wrote the best assessment that I could based on the information that I had.”

She attempted to tie the controversy over her WMD reporting to her current court struggles, and she partly blamed others when arguing that she had heard only after the fact that there had been people who had reservations about the WMD intelligence she was receiving. “I wish they had come forward at the time to express those reservations,” she said. ”To me, this case that I am now involved in emphasizes the importance of getting as many people as possible to come forward with a dissenting view, or allegations of wrongdoing.”

Despite her eloquent passion in defense of freedom of the press, her historical revisionism on the WMD story, when passing off such falsehoods, boggles the mind.

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[dbeach]

1. Bush admin was 'duped"...

SURE! Miller is shill for repukes.her history is shillin for bushfraud..

It wil look scary for her..but its a charade...My bet is she goes free....

so many repuke crimnals..so little time...

Sidebar issue is did rover pass the info through the gannon cannon...
remember when ollie north donned his USMC reserve uniform{which he had no authority to wear in any official capacity} and he wowed em..even got his war show at foxie..

so miller will get what the millers hour.?.Miller high Life.?.{really a low life}

[yellowcanine]

2. "I wish they had come forward ...." Err, Judy, you weren't exactly

actively looking for opposing viewpoints, now, were you? Last I heard, actual REPORTERS, as opposed to shills in bed with their minders, don't WAIT for sources to "come forward", they go looking for them.