All The Lies That Are Fit To Print

[Originally published 10/16 on my old LiveJournal blog]

Judy Miller finally 'comes clean' about her role in the Plamegate saga:
My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room

Thank you, Judy, for almost making Jayson Blair look good in comparison.

And enjoy as other NY Times reporters go all "WTF??!!" on Judy....

The Miller Case: A Notebook, a Cause, a Jail Cell and a Deal

In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame."

Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Ms. Plame, an undercover C.I.A. operative, to reporters as part of an effort to blunt criticism of the president's justification for the war in Iraq.

Ms. Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify and reveal her confidential source, then relented. On Sept. 30, she told the grand jury that her source was I. Lewis Libby, the vice president's chief of staff. But she said he did not reveal Ms. Plame's name.

And when the prosecutor in the case asked her to explain how "Valerie Flame" appeared in the same notebook she used in interviewing Mr. Libby, Ms. Miller said she "didn't think" she heard it from him. "I said I believed the information came from another source, whom I could not recall," she wrote on Friday, recounting her testimony for an article that appears today.

Whether Ms. Miller's testimony will prove valuable to the prosecution remains unclear, as do its ramifications for press freedom. Yet an examination of Ms. Miller's decision not to testify, and then to do so, offers fresh information about her role in the investigation and how The New York Times turned her case into a cause...


Awwww, poor Judy Martyr says all Scooter told her was how mean Joseph Wilson was, and now she can't "recall" who her Plame (or is it "Flame") source was. Not only is she a bad liar, but every accusation thrown at her about being a tool of the Bush administration has now been validated. Feigning ignorance to protect her pal Scooter? Voluntarily going to jail and disgracing the Times to take one for the team and for a book deal? No surprise that, in the newsroom at the Times, "she was a divisive figure". Hopefully the Times will send her packing and give her all the time in the world to 'recall' just who told her about Valerie Flame. Whoever that is.