[Judith Miller] had unusual relationship with military, Iraq group

[yodermon]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Judith_Miller_acted_as_middleman_between_1018.html

Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a “middleman” between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in April 2003, and “took custody” of Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, one of 55 most wanted Iraqis, RAW STORY has found.

Moreover, in one of the most highly unusual arrangements between a news organization and the Department of Defense, Miller sat in on the initial debriefing of Jamal Sultan Tikriti, according to a June 25, 2003 article published in the Washington Post.

The Post article sheds some light on her unusual arrangement in obtaining a special security clearance from the Department of Defense which is now the subject of a Democratic congressional inquiry. On Monday, Reps. John Conyers and Ira Skelton, the ranking Democrats on the House Judiciary and Armed Services committees sent Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a letter demanding an explanation to Miller’s top secret security clearance, which Rumsfeld reportedly personally authorized.

[spindrifter]

1. If this is true

it is absolutely outrageous! There is no way a journalist should be doing that kind of stuff. She has no sense of responsibility toward the people she is supposedly trying to inform--us.

[Justitia]

2. So that is what they're calling it these days? A new Ollie North!

Judy, Judy, Judy - how dumb can you be?
You wanted to feel sooooo important, maybe win a pulitzer.
You're a Grade A Chump for the Chimp.

[Mountainman]

3. Good we sent another letter to the misadministration.

Their wastebasket must be getting full by now. We could publish a book with all the letters Dems have sent to Bush or one of his underlings.

[acmavm]

4. I started to type so many things and they had to be erased because I

started to descend into obscenity and anger every single time. I get almost incoherent when threads about this horrible horrible woman reveal stuff like this.

It would be one thing if she would have written the truth, told the truth at any given time while over in Iraq. But she whored herself out like the low-rent specimen (did it again) that she is for the killers and liars in the White House and Pentagon.

I sincerely wonder why they went through with giving her sorry ass an award today (the SPJ). Considering that (IMO) she helped these sorry bastards commit murder and treason (the did betray the American people), she should have gotten her ass kicked.

I have always heard that it was one of the worst personal sins a person could commit if they were to wish someone to suffer the eternal fires of Hell. (Obviously I'm Catholic) I've managed to rid myself of a lot of my superstition, but I can still see where this hatred could imperil one's immortal soul. But this bunch, I can't help it. I hope they fry forever.

[pinto]

5. Raw Story paraphrasing is a little unclear. Original WaPo article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28385-2003Jun24?language=printer

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 25, 2003; Page C01

New York Times reporter Judith Miller played a highly unusual role in an Army unit assigned to search for dangerous Iraqi weapons, according to U.S. military officials, prompting criticism that the unit was turned into what one official called a "rogue operation."

More than a half-dozen military officers said that Miller acted as a middleman between the Army unit with which she was embedded and Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, on one occasion accompanying Army officers to Chalabi's headquarters, where they took custody of Saddam Hussein's son-in-law. She also sat in on the initial debriefing of the son-in-law, these sources say.

Since interrogating Iraqis was not the mission of the unit, these officials said, it became a "Judith Miller team," in the words of one officer close to the situation.

In April, Miller wrote a letter objecting to an Army commander's order to withdraw the unit, Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, from the field. She said this would be a "waste" of time and suggested that she would write about it unfavorably in the Times. After Miller took up the matter with a two-star general, the pullback order was dropped.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28385-2003Jun24?language=printer

[rocktivity]

6. Miller has had PLENTY of "unusual relationships"

if my stack of old Spy magazines are any indication.

:headbang:
rocknation

[IndianaGreen]

7. Not to mention that NCO she banged in Iraq

Calling Miller a slut is an insult to the world's oldest profession.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Can we assume Chief Warrant Officer Gonzalez's "friendship" with Judy....

was another of "Mattress" Miller's liaisons?

Oh, my dear Lord, the info in these articles indicates she is so out of bounds, so out of control. Shame on the NY Times!

[IndianaGreen]

9. Miller apparently had shacked up with Lee Atwater at one time

She is a gazelle in heat!

[OKNancy]

10. This is hardly breaking news

for those who keep up with such things. I think it's pretty common knowledge here on DU.

[damntexdem]

11. Ooh, pull in Rummy.

Let no Bushista go unindicted.

[Voltaire99]

12. Miller was simply a more polymorphously perverse version...

...of the usual US journo-whore.

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