| Judith Miller did not sacrifice herself to protect a whistle-blower. She was being stubborn to protect her own access to the sewage that spews out of the White House. |
| Judith Miller was a major conduit for the White House lie machine during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Now that criminal wrong-doing has been alleged (and obviously committed by someone), those sources are potentially in real trouble.
Miller went to jail for refusing to reveal who fed her the garbage, not for protecting a source that revealed truth that the public should have been told all along. She went to jail to protect the governments right to spread propaganda. The most intriguing revelation of Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's news conference last week was his assertion that he would have presented his indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby a year ago if not for the intransigence of reporters who refused to testify before the grand jury. He said that without that delay, "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005." Had that been the case, John Kerry probably would be president of the United States today. The 1st Amendment protection is not a license for mischief on the part of journalists eager to do the government's bidding. To the contrary, it was conceived by the founders to prevent government from subverting the free press in an effort to misinform the public. Unfortunately, that is precisely what occurred here. Source: "What Judy forgot" by Robert Scheer - Creators Syndicate - 11.01.05 |
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