According to “a source”, Judith Miller will not face charges related to the Plame leak investigation:
One person who will not be charged is Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify in the case before making two recent appearances before the grand jury. Miller was recently told by Fitzgerald that she is only a witness in the case, according to a source close to Miller.
That source could well be Miller’s lawyer:
“Judy has always been a witness in this case and nothing more,” said Robert S. Bennett, Miller’s attorney. “She is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation.”
If Bennett is indeed the source, can we trust what he says?
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There have been very few and only vague leaks about Rove’s testimony before the grand jury on Friday and those that have come out say the questioning focused on Rove’s conversations with Matt Cooper of Newsweek.
The Washington Post also reports what many have been speculating on lately – that the focus of the investigation is not only on Rove or Libby as the possible leakers but that “Fitzgerald could be trying to establish that a group of White House officials violated the Espionage Act”. (WHIG?) That could have far reaching consequences.
(Susan’s diary about WHIG has been a huge hit throughout the blogosphere. Congrats, Susan!)
Only time will tell…and that time is drawing near…
Dammit! I so wanted Judy to go back to the slammer … bet Big Bertha is sad too.
btw, I can’t imagine that Fitz could be too happy about such a leak to the WaPo. (I hope he’s a spiteful prosecutor! :):))
(Thanks for the nice words :):) You’re a dear. ‘cept when you’re naughty, which is quite often.)
innocent look
truth, justice and the New American Century Way.
Oh well.
I’m so curious: Do you think Judy read Juan Cole’s piece today?
She deserved every word of condemnation he threw her way – and more. Flipping sock puppet.
All I get is different sub ads to click on, and replay.
I subscribe to Salon, so I don’t see the ads. But iirc from before I subscribed, just waiting would usually get you in. But I also seem to recall that sometimes the system seemed to be screwed up. If you want to email me, I’ll send the article to you.
Hard to imagine what she reads these days. From her reporting I doubt she reads Cole.
As circumstances become more dire, I find myself less and less patient with the “incompetence” explanation for much of anything.
My daughter subscribes. It’s a pretty good deal considering that she gets magazine subscriptions free + a book — last year, she got Krugman’s book.
hum..is that her lawyer speaking, cause it is Saturday morning around 12:45 and Drudge, yes i had to wade throught the 3 eyed-2 tongued cat shit to read “Rove-No Target” and it is linked to a story I read about 6 hours ago that says nothing of the sort. Drudge just makes up headlines to get you to click the story. What a fucking Asshole. My heart was a race in. If Rove isn’t indicted I may give up political Blogging and just give in to “Politics are shit and corrupt and there is nothing the America people can do about it”
His article is also available here for anyone else having problemos.
via the Huffington Post:
The writers contend that new limits, which have cut in half the number of media people permitted to go, curtails their ability to prepare for the overseas excursions.
Given the lax quality and pompous nature of our White House media corps, fewer of them might actually be better for us “news consumers” in that there’d inevitably be less “spin” and fewer falsehoods because there’d be fewer people doing the (so-called) reporting.
On another topic, if it’s true, it really is too bad Miller won’t get an indictment of her own.
It could be a money-saving measure as well:
fewer reporters = less kool-aid
fewer spinners
probably means tighter spin control.
i.e.: less need to dilute the kool-aid and spread it thin; and a more concentrated dose for the remaining…
On the serious side, kinda of contrary to friday nights- as challenging as it is i’m sitting tight on what will unfold with j.miller-we will know soon. Keller’s comments of late- a particularly absurd one yesterday in the article by Howard Kurtz: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202393.html “Of course I’m concerned by the very palpable frustration in the newsroom,” Executive Editor Bill Keller said yesterday. “I share it. It’s excruciating to have a story and not be able to tell it, and annoying to be nibbled at by the blogs and to watch preposterous speculation congeal into conventional wisdom.”
Yes Bill it is excruciating to have had Judith Miller’s WMD articles congeal into `conventional wisdom’ in the march to war.
Dear Bill, For me, the Boo, the blogs , hold incredible promise for telling the truth.
Well to contribute to the light side we all need: have fun with this: http://wwwthefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf
Catnip-thanks for the great diary-i’m a little slow in figuring out how to rate. So ‘4’ for you-don’t have much time to be online unfortunately-thank you for your hard work
I’d say we’ve been taking huge bites like Fred Flinstone gnawing on a brontosaurus drumstick – unlike the timid NYT which has been acting like an anoerexic nun, starving itself and its readers in the name of bowing to the heathen God, Bush.
(That was good – if I may say so myself…)
that was good! ratchet it up a bit– soundtrack ‘Jaws’ ………that’s how big a bite. The NYT has a consistent role-that is for sure. one of many examples el salvador-civil war, ‘prize’NYT reporter Ray Bonner reporting from the ground-death squads funded by u.s. – NYT refuses to print his stories- not even the bottom of the ninth inning at that time-NYT to Ray: you’re outta there-
oop’s and i forgot to say–everything Ray Bonner reported proved to be true. U.N. Truth Commission Report 1994.
reporters cried.
When reporters lied, millions died.
I just think it would look better backlit.
backlit? I’d go for blacklit!
From reb’s comment above. It’s good. The second link, that is.
your link no workie for me
right above yours.
Thanks! That was priceless!!!
(If they left anything out I can’t think of it now.)
The link to that little ditty shall go out to the long list.
The article also re-affirmed that the SP was looking into a group at the WH for violating the Espionage act, as well as looking at perjury charges.
So, if I had my druthers, I’d druther have Rove, Libby, Hadley, and Cheney indicted — rather than Miller.
This is such a rollercoaster ride. As one of my favourite Canadian radio talk show hosts, Peter Warren, says: “Get on with it!”
No shit. We must return to our regularly scheduled lives when this is over.
You really should save this evening’s thread for the future.
The schedule for America has been changed. The hand has written and moved on.
ALL of them in jail. Including Judy. I want her up on charges in the Hague, as a war criminal. There is blood on her hands, rivers of it. Her arrogance and ego – and how many have died because Americans believed her fucking lies and innuendos about WMD’s? And they’re not dead because they expired peacefully in their beds at a ripe old age, they were shot and blown up. Tortured.
Sorry to be ranting. I feel strongly about this.
I know. I hear ya. Me too. But…
I just skimmed the judge’s opinion that threw her in jail, and I was reminded that she was in contempt because she had evidence that directly determined the guilt or innocence of individual/s. I think Fitzgerald was able to squeeze that evidence from her, because now she is no longer in contempt. I believe (I hope) she gave him exactly what he needed to indict some really evil people — people with administrative powers that led us to a war for oil.
I hope that her freedom is a sign that Fitzgerald has succeeded in getting the information that he was seeking.
Miller was recently told by Fitzgerald that she is only a witness in the case, according to a source close to Miller
If they had said that miller was told this today, or yesterday… I would have said:
“OK, maybe she probalbly will get off.”
Recently:
“he was in Paris recently”;
Last week? Last month?
“lately the rules have been enforced”;
In the last year maybe?
“as recent as yesterday she was fine”;
that was yesterday…
“feeling better of recently”;
Last few days? Yesterday?
“They were recently married.”
In the last month or two? Last week?
“It is only in earths more recent history that man has been the dominant life form”
Wow! Recently could be thousands and thousands of years ago!!!
Get my point?
This is the sort of word parsing that Magorn likes, I think? (lol) Straight up lawyer talk that means squat.
Oh stop being so anal!
j/k 🙂
Just holding out hope that the WMD-chalabi-lovin’ liar, Miller, will get her due.
That is not being anal…
Just being an optimist! lol
is Judy not going to be charged because she hooked a deal with Fitzie to catch the big fish?(even though he looks like one I don’t mean Rove, I mean Rove must be indicted, but I have my eye set on a much bigger prize. The “Fuck You” on the Senate floor and “My daughter is Mary Cheney the lesbian” Prize. Things are just going way to bad for Bush these days to add another nail in his coffin. Getting the dick would make me happy.
at dKos.
I don’t normally do this but–
New York Times has never once mentioned the White House Iraq Group. They’re saying management was part of the WHIG.
Ran over there to look at the thread. A few people have checked other major papers — Wapo, La Times, for ex. Not much, if anything, apparently in those papers either.
I don’t know enough about search engines to understand this.
I think many have been speculating as to what will happen, but until the Fitz, himself, has done his job and let the cat out of the bag, we will all just have to sit back and wait for the final word on this topic.
I too have been very anxious as to what will comeforth on this investigation. I have been speculating on much for a very long time, and am getting ready for the end of this one investigation. To me it is like the climax of the ending of a very good book.
Catnip,
If Fitz hasn’t sent out his letters of notification about target status of anyone called before the G.J., how does the ‘WaPo’ know with any accuracy, beyond the typical ‘un-named sources close to the issue’ or ‘some say’ mish-mash, who is a target, and who is not?
I smell Bennett.
Sounds like male bovine-exhaust.
The Defense lawyer has no knowledge of what is going on in Fitzgerald’s mind nor of the discussions taking place within the prosecuting team. These statements could be an attempt to pre-condition the information environment by saying “They won’t prosecute” and then, when indictments are handed down, spinning the indictment by saying, “Look! They lied! They said they wouldn’t indict my client and not they are!” Or it could be an attempt to ‘send a message’ saying, “Please! Please! Please don’t indict! We’ll be good!” to Fitzgerald.
Or… Or… Or.
From what I’ve read, and I’m no expert and IANAL, Fitzgerald’s history is to turn the lower-ranks against the upper-ranks but still indict.
Last, Fitzgerald is not a SP but … something else I can’t remember. Basically, IIRC, he has the same legal powers and protection of the Attorney General.
And I ain’t got no clue as to what that means.
The Defense lawyer has no knowledge of what is going on in Fitzgerald’s mind nor of the discussions taking place within the prosecuting team. These statements could be an attempt to pre-condition the information environment by saying “They won’t prosecute” and then, when indictments are handed down, spinning the indictment by saying, “Look! They lied! They said they wouldn’t indict my client and not they are!” Or it could be an attempt to ‘send a message’ saying, “Please! Please! Please don’t indict! We’ll be good!” to Fitzgerald.
Here is the reality. Every single one of the lawyers with a “possible” subject or target constantly refers to PFitz. But none of them ever mention the actual Grand Jury. Remember that while PFitz builds and makes a case, it is the Grand Jury that hands out indictments.
The most PFitz can do to influence the GJ is present the information and make recommendations to them. The GJ has a huge influence on the cases as well, since it is my understanding that they can actually ask questions of the witnesses/subjects/targets, or ask them for “clarifications” etc. (Please! Someone correct me if I am wrong here?)
Who is on this GJ anyways? I have never seen that list. Does anyone know?