GBCW: Judy Miller's Coming Letter to the NY Times.

Judy Miller will pen a “Goodbye Cruel World” letter to the NY Times:

Under the agreement, Ms. Miller will retire from the newspaper, and The Times will print a letter she wrote to the editor explaining her position. Ms. Miller originally demanded that she be able to write an essay for the paper’s Op-Ed page challenging the allegations against her. The Times refused that demand – Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, said, “We don’t use the Op-Ed page for back and forth between one part of the paper and another” – but agreed to let her write the letter.

In that letter, to be published in The New York Times on Thursday under the heading, “Judith Miller’s Farewell,” Ms. Miller said she was leaving partly because some of her colleagues disagreed with her decision to testify in the C.I.A. leak case.

The only sad part? They didn’t outright fire her and
kick her propagandizing ass to the curb!

The letter should appear in tommorrow’s NY Times. I guess we should be checking the electronic edition tonight? lol

15 Comments

Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 4:55 pm

And good riddence!

As if there wasn’t enough good news going around today, eh?

The Maven on November 9, 2005 at 9:31 pm

Surprise, surprise! Judy’s already got herself a website, and on it she’s posted the full text of her self-serving letter. Excerpts, from JudithMiller.org:

I have chosen to resign because over the last few months, I have become the news, something a New York Times reporter never wants to be.

Even before I went to jail, I had become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war. Several articles I wrote or co-wrote were based on this faulty intelligence, and in May 2004, The Times concluded in an editors’ note that its coverage should have reflected greater editorial and reportorial skepticism.

At a commencement speech I delivered at Barnard College in 2003, a year before that note was published, I asked whether the administration’s prewar W.M.D. intelligence was merely wrong, or was it exaggerated or even falsified. I believed then, and still do, that the answer to bad information is more reporting. I regret that I was not permitted to pursue answers to the questions I raised at Barnard.
— — —
I am gratified that Bill Keller, The Times executive editor, has finally clarified remarks made by him that were unsupported by fact and personally distressing. Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper’s sourcing and ethical guidelines, and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed.
— — —
In my future writing, I intend to call attention to the internal and external threats to our country’s freedoms – Al Qaeda and other forms of religious extremism, conventional and W.M.D. terrorism, and growing government secrecy in the name of national security – subjects that have long defined my work.

In other words, she won’t go gentle into that good night.
- Kidspeak on November 10, 2005 at 2:06 am
  
  Well, a website isn’t likely to pay her NYTimes level salary. Nor is she likely to attract much of an audience without the status of the Times behind her back. I predit that after a short period of time, unless she gets picked up by someone (Washington Times maybe? The National Enquirer?) she’ll have to hustle a bit more. I think her sources will dry up quickly as sooon as it is clear she no longer has access to the powerhouse media that she previously enjoyed.
- Connecticut Man1 on November 10, 2005 at 8:13 am
  
  Nice catch Maven!

BostonJoe on November 9, 2005 at 4:59 pm

Dang CT Man. For a second, glancing at the recent diary list, I say GBCW and your name and was saddened. But Judy. No tears from me. Thppt!

Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 5:11 pm

Don’t worry BostonJoe… Booman would have to ban me from this community to get me out of here… And even then I would still come back and read! lol

(Besides… I can get a new email, MAC ID and user ID in an instant. Getting rid of me would be hard to do! LOL JK)

rumi on November 9, 2005 at 5:24 pm

Good thought and diary.

Won’t she run into trouble somewhere along the line by doing this before the investigation is officially over? She’s still in the middle of it as to relevance of her testimony and information.

Could this be another Libby-esque Dear Judy Letter?

Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 5:31 pm

I think that it will end up being a repeat of her “I am so great and I didn’t do anything wrong” BS that she wrote after being released from jail.

It is nice that they told her “No!” when she asked for her GBCW to be printed in the Op-Ed section… They told her they would print her letter and that was all.

I am sure that the editors will have to deal with the “why?” of her leaving. I think that should be more interesting than Judy’s excuses.
- rumi on November 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm
  
  Times has an extensive section for fiction, don’t they?
  
  She’d fit in there like pleas in a pod, or in a nutshell, or something like that.

ubikkibu on November 9, 2005 at 5:52 pm

“We don’t use the Op-Ed page for back and forth between one part of the paper and another”

Previous editorials about Ms. Miller’s inhumane imprisonment notwithstanding, of course.

alohaleezy on November 9, 2005 at 6:16 pm

Adios Judes and don’t let the door hit ya in your lying ass!

BrendaStewart on November 9, 2005 at 6:53 pm

Thank God she is finally gone!!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!

Oui on November 9, 2005 at 7:07 pm

Was also a lie to place fear in minds of the British people –

London MI5’s ‘Torture’ Evidence Revealed Ricin Conspiracy Collapsed

Vital evidence in a terror case that was used by Tony Blair to justify the war with Iraq was withheld by Britain’s top chemical weapons laboratory.

Tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.

Libby & Nuclear Secrets to China
By Robert Parry — November 4, 2005

Indicted ex-White House aide Lewis Libby played a key role in an earlier case of slanting U.S. intelligence for political gain – four years before the Iraq War when he was legal adviser to a House investigation into how communist China got U.S. nuclear secrets.

“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

Kamakhya on November 9, 2005 at 7:48 pm

I’m sure Talon News could use another reporter of her kind!

Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 8:57 pm

I see her ending up at “The Heritage Foundation” or some other place like that where they would truly appreciate her propaganda skills and unquestining abilityt to write what she is told to write by radical right wing-nuts…

OR… Maybe she’ll end up as the head of the PBS?
(Cringe!)

Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 4:55 pm

And good riddence!

As if there wasn’t enough good news going around today, eh?
- The Maven on November 9, 2005 at 9:31 pm
  
  Surprise, surprise! Judy’s already got herself a website, and on it she’s posted the full text of her self-serving letter. Excerpts, from JudithMiller.org:
  
  I have chosen to resign because over the last few months, I have become the news, something a New York Times reporter never wants to be.
  
  Even before I went to jail, I had become a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war. Several articles I wrote or co-wrote were based on this faulty intelligence, and in May 2004, The Times concluded in an editors’ note that its coverage should have reflected greater editorial and reportorial skepticism.
  
  At a commencement speech I delivered at Barnard College in 2003, a year before that note was published, I asked whether the administration’s prewar W.M.D. intelligence was merely wrong, or was it exaggerated or even falsified. I believed then, and still do, that the answer to bad information is more reporting. I regret that I was not permitted to pursue answers to the questions I raised at Barnard.
  — — —
  I am gratified that Bill Keller, The Times executive editor, has finally clarified remarks made by him that were unsupported by fact and personally distressing. Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper’s sourcing and ethical guidelines, and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed.
  — — —
  In my future writing, I intend to call attention to the internal and external threats to our country’s freedoms – Al Qaeda and other forms of religious extremism, conventional and W.M.D. terrorism, and growing government secrecy in the name of national security – subjects that have long defined my work.
  
  In other words, she won’t go gentle into that good night.
  - Kidspeak on November 10, 2005 at 2:06 am
    
    Well, a website isn’t likely to pay her NYTimes level salary. Nor is she likely to attract much of an audience without the status of the Times behind her back. I predit that after a short period of time, unless she gets picked up by someone (Washington Times maybe? The National Enquirer?) she’ll have to hustle a bit more. I think her sources will dry up quickly as sooon as it is clear she no longer has access to the powerhouse media that she previously enjoyed.
  - Connecticut Man1 on November 10, 2005 at 8:13 am
    
    Nice catch Maven!
BostonJoe on November 9, 2005 at 4:59 pm

Dang CT Man. For a second, glancing at the recent diary list, I say GBCW and your name and was saddened. But Judy. No tears from me. Thppt!
- Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 5:11 pm
  
  Don’t worry BostonJoe… Booman would have to ban me from this community to get me out of here… And even then I would still come back and read! lol
  
  (Besides… I can get a new email, MAC ID and user ID in an instant. Getting rid of me would be hard to do! LOL JK)
rumi on November 9, 2005 at 5:24 pm

Good thought and diary.

Won’t she run into trouble somewhere along the line by doing this before the investigation is officially over? She’s still in the middle of it as to relevance of her testimony and information.

Could this be another Libby-esque Dear Judy Letter?
- Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 5:31 pm
  
  I think that it will end up being a repeat of her “I am so great and I didn’t do anything wrong” BS that she wrote after being released from jail.
  
  It is nice that they told her “No!” when she asked for her GBCW to be printed in the Op-Ed section… They told her they would print her letter and that was all.
  
  I am sure that the editors will have to deal with the “why?” of her leaving. I think that should be more interesting than Judy’s excuses.
  - rumi on November 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm
    
    Times has an extensive section for fiction, don’t they?
    
    She’d fit in there like pleas in a pod, or in a nutshell, or something like that.
ubikkibu on November 9, 2005 at 5:52 pm

“We don’t use the Op-Ed page for back and forth between one part of the paper and another”

Previous editorials about Ms. Miller’s inhumane imprisonment notwithstanding, of course.
alohaleezy on November 9, 2005 at 6:16 pm

Adios Judes and don’t let the door hit ya in your lying ass!
BrendaStewart on November 9, 2005 at 6:53 pm

Thank God she is finally gone!!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!!
Oui on November 9, 2005 at 7:07 pm
.
Was also a lie to place fear in minds of the British people –

London MI5’s ‘Torture’ Evidence Revealed Ricin Conspiracy Collapsed

Vital evidence in a terror case that was used by Tony Blair to justify the war with Iraq was withheld by Britain’s top chemical weapons laboratory.

Tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.
Libby & Nuclear Secrets to China
By Robert Parry — November 4, 2005

Indicted ex-White House aide Lewis Libby played a key role in an earlier case of slanting U.S. intelligence for political gain – four years before the Iraq War when he was legal adviser to a House investigation into how communist China got U.S. nuclear secrets.

“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
Kamakhya on November 9, 2005 at 7:48 pm

I’m sure Talon News could use another reporter of her kind!
- Connecticut Man1 on November 9, 2005 at 8:57 pm
  
  I see her ending up at “The Heritage Foundation” or some other place like that where they would truly appreciate her propaganda skills and unquestining abilityt to write what she is told to write by radical right wing-nuts…
  
  OR… Maybe she’ll end up as the head of the PBS?
  (Cringe!)

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