Judith Miller Gets Tired Of Prison, Decides To Talk

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Judith Miller Gets Tired Of Prison, Decides To Talk

By Thomas Keyes
Sept. 30, 2005

On September 30, 2005, Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter who may have information relative to the investigation by US District Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, into whether anyone violated the Intelligence Identitities Protection Act or any other federal statute in the disclosure of the name of CIA operative, was released from federal prison, where she had been held since July 6. The condition of her release was that she agree to testify before a grand jury on the matter. All along, Judith Miller had refused to testify, invoking the journalistic privilege of exemption from being forced to reveal information received only after a promise of confidentiality made to the informant. Miller and the New York Times have adopted the stancc that by refusing to testify, Miller was actually defending the free flow of news that such privileged information makes possible. Others have speculated that she was protecting somebody.

This of course has to do with the disclosure by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Robert Novak of the identity of CIA operative, Valerie Plame, the wife of Joseph Wilson IV, who wrote a damaging article in the NYT falsifying the oft-repeated claim by George W. Bush and his faction that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger. Wilson’s contention, since August of 2003, was that the disclosure of Plame’s name was a reprisal for his article. In other words, Bush or one of his henchmen was getting even with Wilson for seeking to undermine the casus belli that they invoked to justify the Iraqi invasion.

One thing to note here, is that, once it had been established that there had been no WMD in Iraq and that there had been no serious contact or collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the NYT, along with some other leading US periodicals, made token apologies for their acquiescence in the disinformation campaign conducted by the Bush faction to market the invasion to the general public. In their apology, the NYT cited a dozen articles they had published that exaggerated the menace posed by Iraq and overstated the case for war. Of these 12 articles, ten were authored by Judith Miller. So from this fact, it is incontrovertible that Miller was one of the loudest voices advocating war. She also co-authored a book, with Laurie Mylroie, trumpeting the need to deal with Iraq.

I mentioned in several articles I have posted here the tremendous Jewish role in the run-up to the war, and I have been contradicted by several other contributors at this website. Just let me interject that Novak, Miller and Mylroie, as well as Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of the NYT, are all Jewish, and may consider Israel’s welfare first and foremost, regardless of what it costs in American blood and money.

Anyway, according to the NYT, Miller’s informant was I. Lewis Libby, the Vice President’s chief of staff, and—need I say it?—another Jewish Zionist.

Now the story is that Libby freed Miller from her pledge of confidentiality more than a year ago, through her then-lawyer, Floyd Abrams, but somehow she misunderstood, or thought that the release was not made by him personally. Now, in the last week or so, Libby has talked directly to Miller, giving her the go-ahead to testify.

I don’t know what’s up, but something isn’t right here. Does the NYT mean to say that during the three months that Miller was in prison, it never occurred to Libby to clarify or repeat that he had released her from her promise?

And if the much-awaited testimony proves to be entirely innocuous, will there be a single person in the establishment media who questions why Miller mounted so many appeals and spent so much time in prison to avoid testifying? It hardly seems credible that Libby would release her if he knew beforehand that what she has to say would incriminate him. So they must have cooked up a crock. I wonder if Fitzgerald is in on the theatrical.

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About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far.

I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents.

Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com

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