JUDY, JUDY, JUDY MILLER (AND MAYBE CONDI TO0)

JUDY, JUDY, JUDY And Now Maybe Condi Too. The Plame Outing Theory (POT) Around Here for A Long Time Has Centered Around JUDY MARTYR MILLER, Lead Actress in this Washington Dope Opera Where No One Has Any Intelligence and Only Stupidity Is Served.  More than any single person, JUDITH MILLER embodies reporters in bed with politicians, but we the public are the ones most screwed. From her championing of the chump CHALABI to her CHEERLEADING for the war, Judith Miller has been more a propaganda agent than a reporter of facts.  Anyone who doesn’t THINK MILLER IS TAKING the FIRST AMENDMENT convenience case in jail so she doesn’t have to take the FIFTH AMENDMENT hard case may want to pick up a case of Miller’s bitch’s brew tonight and a fifth of wishful whiskey because when America wakes up from this dark dream, all of us will have a wicked hangover.

As has been stated here before, the Bush White House is nothing but a team effort where the quarterback took to many hits of everything long before this game started. The question now isn’t who is involved in the Plame outing. The question is, who isn’t? CONDOLEEZZA RICE could get cooked on this too.  Don’t forget Rice and mushrooms to go on the way to war. RICE and MUSHROOM CLOUDS. Federal  Prosecutor PATRICK FITZGERALD has until October before his appointment turns into a pumpkin just in time for Halloween. The Dope Opera of the Plame Outing Theory (POT) will only get dumb and dumberer over the next few weeks. 

You heard it here first. Or second. Or it doesn’t matter because you are going to here this more and more. Judy, Judy, Judy did it. Condi did it. They all did it.  We don’t want the next smoking gun to be a nuclear cloud over Washington on this. We will leave the nukes to the Roberts Supreme Court battle.

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[FIREDOGLAKE] As we mentioned here before, Patrick Fitzgerald's term of office as US attorney ends in October, and the man whose recommendation lead to his appointment in the first place -- former Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald (oft confused but not related) -- says that pressure is mounting to get him the hell out of office.

[ARIANNA HUFFINGTON] This is why Miller doesn't want to reveal her "source" at the White House -- because she was the source. Sure, she first got the info from someone else, and the odds are she wasn't the only one who clued in Libby and/or Rove (the State Dept. memo likely played a role too)… but, in this scenario, Miller certainly wasn't an innocent writer caught up in the whirl of history. She had a starring role in it. This also explains why Miller never wrote a story about Plame, because her goal wasn't to write a story, but to get out the story that cast doubts on Wilson's motives. Which Novak did. . . . .
Any discussion of Miller's actions in the Plame-Rove-Libby-Gonzalez-Card scandal must not leave out the key role she played in cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq and in hyping the WMD threat. Re-reading some of her pre-war reporting today, it's hard not to be disgusted by how inaccurate and pumped up it turned out to be. For chapter and verse, check out Slate's Jack Shafer. For the money quote on her mindset, look to her April 2003 appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where, following up on her blockbuster front page story about an Iraqi scientist and his claims that Iraq had destroyed all its WMD just before the war started, Miller said the scientist was more than a "smoking gun," he was the "silver bullet" in the hunt for WMD. The "silver bullet" later turned out to be another blank -- and the scientist turned out to be a military intelligence official


[FROOMKIN/WASHINGTON POST] But now comes today's news from WALTER PINCUS AND JIM VANDERHEI on the front page of The Washington Post: "The special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the case. . . .
"In doing so, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked not only about how CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was leaked but also how the administration went about shifting responsibility from the White House to the CIA for having included 16 words in the 2003 State of the Union address about Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from Africa, an assertion that was later disputed."


[MORRIS/COUNTERPUNCH] For those who know the invariably central role of the NSC Advisor in sensitive political subjects in foreign policy and in White House leaks to the media as well as tending of policy, especially in George W. Bush's rigidly disciplined, relentlessly political regime, Rice by both commission and omission was integral in perpetrating the original fraud of Niger, and then inevitably in the vengeful betrayal of Plame's identity. None of that spilling of secrets for crass political retribution could have gone on without her knowledge and approval, and thus complicity. Little of it could have happened without her participation, if not as a leaker herself, at least with her direction and with her scripting.[HAT TIP: AGITPROP ]

[BLUMENTHAL/SALON] Rove is fighting his war as though it will be settled in a court of Washington pundits. Brandishing his formidable political weapons, he seeks to demonstrate his prowess once again. His corps of agents raises a din in which their voices drown out individual dissidents. His frantic massing of forces dominates the capital by winning the communications battle. Indeed, Rove may succeed momentarily in quelling the storm. But the stillness may be illusory. Before the prosecutor, Rove's arsenal is useless.
 
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[Chuck, Left Of Left]

Great dig ups on Miller, Joe!

Wonder how much is she getting to sit in jail? A good chunk of the truth is sitting right there. Rove's dodging the double barrel.