Judy Miller is coming across as one of the least credible witnesses. in the history of witnesses. The Libby defense team is just destroying her. And it is oh-so-delicious considering she went to jail for 85 days to protect their client and she subsequently testified to the grand jury with a deliberately faulty memory in order to protect their client. And now they are turning that all around to make her look like a liar that is hiding something.
The Judy Miller saga began when the DOJ subpoenaed any notes she had on discussions about Joe Wilson in July 2003. The DOJ didn’t realize that Judy had met with Libby on June 23rd, 2003 so they didn’t ask for notes from June. Judy had an out to avoid turning over her notes from June.
But the DOJ found out about that June meeting from someone else and they confronted her with that information when she appeared before the grand jury. Judy went back and found the relevant notebook in a box under her desk. And when she read the notes from the June 23rd meeting it refreshed her memory about a meeting she had forgotten.
In other words, she used the technicality that the original subpoena didn’t ask for June notes to excuse her obstruction of justice, and then she used the faulty memory excuse to explain her inaccurate testimony about when she first heard about Plame from Libby.
It was all an elaborate ruse to help Libby avoid responsibility for leaking highly classified information. And now, Libby’s defense team is absolutely shredding her credibility because her story is a pile of crap. Yet, if she admits why it is a pile of crap she will be immediately arrested and prosecuted for obstruction of justice. She’s sweating bullets up on the stand, and she is acting like a hostile witness, refusing to answer staightforwarldly even the simplest of questions. She can’t remember anything, she has no knowledge of when she learned anything or from whom, she doesn’t understand the organization of the CIA, or the State Department, etc. etc. etc.
It’s a cruel irony for Judy that all the thanks she gets for obstructing this investigation for over a year is to be destroyed by the people she set out to protect. I love it.
Let this be a lesson to anyone that does business with the Bush administration. I don’t care if you are Karzai, Maliki, Lieberman, or Judy Miller…there is no profit in it. They will destroy your reputation quicker than you can say Colin Powell or George Tenet.
At least Tenet got a Medal of Freedom for his fall guy act. I don’t think that honor’s in Judy’s future.
And after Scooter wrote her that lovely poem about the turning aspens, I am just shocked, SHOCKED I TELLSYA, that such a fine young man would plant a shiv so deeply into poor, innocent, starry-eyed Judy Miller.
I think I may go weep quietly for a few moments. -Sniff- talk amongst yourselves.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer gal…lol.
She sold her soul for access to the WH. She has been whoring for them for so long that it no longer seems like prostitution. But, getting paid 100 times for whoring does not make whoredom respectable. Rather, it just destroys your own situation.
I have no sympathy for this little Bush-slut. Her pimping for Bush in the press helped considerably in getting us into Iraq. So, if she gets destroyed in the same trial as will convict Scooter and is destroying Cheney and Rove, it’s a win-win-win-win for America.
Judith Miller’s early book, God has Ninety-nine Names covered Middle East history with breadth, depth and clarity. I believe she said that Saddam Hussein prevented her from entering Iraq, so that country was left out of the book.
From her testimony, it was being a co-author of Germs that led her to interview Libby. Sad results.
From the commentary above, I have one nit-pick to mention, my emphasis:
I think the word she used was “shopping bag.” Takes a woman to understand the difference here! Now, when J Edgar Hoover’s files were taken from his offices after his death, those required boxes.
From Jeralyn blogging from the trial at TalkLeft
If this is one of Judith Miller’s contentions then, yes, I would say she is one the least credible witnesses possible. Quite a storyline she has there. For some reason I don’t believe most thinking people are going to buy into a lot of this tale. It will be interesting to see how many in the jury fit into that category.
Did you read her answers to the questions as to why her notes were in a shopping bag under her desk. The questions were classic, the answers were a lesson in artful evasion. Of all her dumb lies, that honker is clearly the worst. I agree the irony is rich, the fact that she can’t relate the true reason for failing to acknowledge the meeting, because if she did she’d go to jail and Scooter would have charges added.
Beautiful. Truly Aspen-worthy.
Well once a liar has to try and start explaining their lies with more lies it usually means they finally get caught. You can only tell so many lies before you’ve dug your own grave with the sheer weight of all your lies. Mainly because you just can’t remember all the lies you’ve told. If any of these people testifying tell the truth I’m sure it’s only some sort of serendipitous accident.
I know they are under oath but I doubt that means much to chronic liars especially if they are trying to cover up their own complicity in this situation.