The Lou and Judy Love Fest
04 October 2005 4:03 pm by Taylor Marsh
A lawyer for I. Lewis “Scooter”
Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, said yesterday that New York
Times reporter Judith Miller and her attorneys are responsible for Miller’s
85 days in jail, reiterating that she was given permission a year ago to tell
a prosecutor about private conversations she had with Libby. Libby’s attorney,
Joseph A. Tate, escalated the sharp dispute over exactly when Libby freed Miller
to be questioned by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is investigating
whether any government officials broke the law by leaking the identity of covert
CIA operative Valerie Plame.
LAWYER
CASTS BLAME ON REPORTER
The love fest is finished.
That is, the exclusive interview between Lou Dobbs and Judith
Miller.
So, after 85 days in jail, Judy speaks, but only on CNN. She thanked
the network for supporting and standing by her, also thanking Lou Dobbs. Then
they went on about The New York Times, which is fair, because at least the paper
was righteous to the end. The same cannot be said for Ms. Miller.
I’m a huge fan of Mr. Dobbs, but on this we couldn’t disagree
more. So be it. No mud will be slung over it.
But I don’t have any more answers now than I did when the interview
began.
Judy said she couldn’t abide Fitzgerld coercing Libby to give
her a waiver.
She was stuck on the principle of protecting her source.
But in the end, after 85 days, she just couldn’t take it anymore
and got the deal she could have gotten a year earlier?
What principle.
What spine.
What utter b.s.
At one point in the interview she said she couldn’t get Fitzgerald
to “constrain” and “narrow” her testimony a year ago, but
she could just last week. So, she decided to sing.
Huh? So which is it, Judy?
Is it that you wanted to hear personally from Libby, or that you
couldn’t get the special prosecutor to narrow your testimony, thus insuring
that no other subject would be broached?
Judy’s juggling rationale is offensive, especially since she’s
parading herself as a paragon of journalistic integrity, all in the name of
a federal shield law, but not for journalists, mind you. It’s all for the American
people’s “right to know.”
That’s rich.
Hand me the Pepto. I think I’m going to be sick.
