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2005-10-13 Fifth Column

The Judith Miller Saga Drags On - A Case of Editorial ~~Default~~ Bankruptcy

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Posted by .com 2005-10-13 04:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...and to watch preposterous speculation congeal into conventional wisdom."
Join the club--- there's a LOT of that going around.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-10-13 06:16|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-10-13 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Miller never wrote an article about the 2003 efforts of White House officials to disclose that Valerie Plame, wife of administration critic Joe Wilson, was a CIA operative.
From everything I've read about this, and that includes the NYT et al, the White House was not trying to disclose that Valerie Plame-Wilson was a CIA operative. That was disclosed way back in the 90s and was the reason she was called home from Russia. She was not a CIA operative at the time, merely a CIA employee and that fact was common knowledge.
Andrew C. McCarthy writing for NRO:
In Section 422 (of Title 50, U.S. Code), it provides that an accused leaker is in the clear if, sometime before the leak, "the United States ha[s] publicly acknowledged or revealed" the covert agent's "intelligence relationship to the United States[.]"
As it happens, the media organizations informed the court that long before the Novak revelation (which, as noted above, did not disclose Plame's classified relationship with the CIA), Plame's cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz - an old-school, "let's find out what really happened" kind of journalist. Gertz's relevant article was published a year ago in the Washington Times.
THE MEDIA TELLS THE COURT: PLAME'S COVER WAS BLOWN IN THE MID-1990s
As the media alleged to the judges (in Footnote 7, page 8, of their brief), Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow. Of course, the press and its attorneys were smart enough not to argue that such a disclosure would trigger the defense prescribed in Section 422 because it was evidently made by a foreign-intelligence operative, not by a U.S. agency as the statute literally requires.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-10-13 10:58|| 2005-10-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 That, in turn, made many journalists, inside and outside the Times, wonder why she had gone to jail in the first place.

The end result was the prosecutor agreeing to limit the scope of his questioning.

Posted by Pappy 2005-10-13 11:33|| 2005-10-13 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 and avoid investigating her leak to Islamic suspects that they were about to be raided. Thanks NYTimes! Traitors

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-13 12:13|| 2005-10-13 12:13|| Front Page Top

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