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.
