but, Sulzberger who compromised the NYT by having Miller planted. Keller would have also signed off on it...

This might explain the contortions all of them have been going through trying to spin the stories in every possible direction.

The NYT uses a fascade of "liberal" reporting (c.f. Krugman, Rich etc.) to create a patina that hides the real intent: CIA and Pentagon propaganda...

Maybe time to rethink our assumptions about who is reporting what: There are obviously conservative venues like the WSJ and then there are domestic covert operatives like the NYT, CBS, Time... CNN? ABC? Newsweek? All of the so-called non-conservative venues?

hmmmm...

Sash and tiara?!  That's so funny.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

Conyers has a nice intro to his letter on his blog:

I am watching with great interest the possible conclusion of the Fitzgerald grand jury. Many think that Members of Congress have an inside track about these things. Honestly, I have no idea what is going to happen and the only benefit to being a Member of Congress in this instance may be that I hear more rumors, not more reliable ones. I find I learn more reading Arianna, Murray Waas and Lawrence O'Donnell than the New York Times or Washington Post.

Nonetheless, maybe we did learn something new from the Times this weekend. I noted that the blogosphere was abuzz over the weekend with word that Judith Miller, New York Times reporter and First Amendment cause celebre that never was, claims she has or had a security clearance. For more information see Huffington Post, Atrios here, or Talking Points Memo. . . . .

My own view is that Ms. Miller didn't have a clearance, and probably either misspoke, misunderstood or deliberately exaggerated her clearance status. I have heard that, while embedded with troops in Iraq, many reporters were under obligation to not disclose troop movements and other secrets that may have directly impacted the safety of the troops. It is possible that Miller signed an agreement to that effect and either mistook, misconstrued or misrepresented such an agreement as a security clearance.

Nonetheless, in an era of fake reporters in the White House briefing room, government paid pundits and federally funded propaganda, forgive me if it does not seem implausible that a reporter or reporters would receive quasi-official status. These questions need to be answered.

We should just throw the bitch back in jail.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt