From the Press Release when she was named Cheney's Press Secretary:

"Jennifer Millerwise has served the President well in her roll as Assistant Press Secretary.  She brings great energy and skill to her new post as my Press Secretary and spokesperson," said Vice President Dick Cheney.

As Press Secretary to the Vice President, Ms. Millerwise will be his principle spokesperson.  She also will advise the Office of the Vice President on press and communications related issues and coordinate media outreach and response.

Jennifer is experienced, dedicated, and creative.  We have worked closely on many projects and we look forward to developing an even closer relationship with her, said Mary Matalin, Counselor to the Vice President and Assistant to the President.

(emphasis mine)  This whole mess WHIGs me out.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

This whole mess is like a huge spider web. . .it seems almost everyone is intangled in it.  MY, MY, My!  

Good report, Manny.  Thanks.

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Other sources confirmed . . . that Bush was
initially furious with Rove in 2003 when his
deputy chief of staff conceded he had talked
to the press about the Plame leak.

The quote from earlier today that got everyone riled up.

Is it just me or does this quote simply say that rove "talked to the press about the Plame leak"?

Talking about the leak and being the leaker are two completely different things. Taken at face value this paragraph doesn't do much for us. If there is more behind it to turn that about into a more pro-active word then let me know. Otherwise this ain't as good as it initionally looked.

The 10,000 Things

Josh Marshall links to a Washington Post story with one paragraph about Ms. Millerwise:

The special prosecutor has personally interviewed numerous officials from the CIA, White House and State Department. In the process, he and his investigative team have talked to a number of Cheney aides, including Mary Matalin, his former strategist; Catherine Martin, his former communications adviser; and Jennifer Millerwise, his former spokeswoman. In the case of Millerwise, she talked with the prosecutor more than two years ago but never appeared before the grand jury, according to a person familiar with her situation.

Marshall continues ...

This bucket of facts [the VandeHi-Pincus story]is dropped into the piece with no terribly clear explanation. And that's a lot of information about Jennifer Millerwise, isn't it?

She was Cheney's Press Secretary from 2001 to 2003. She then went to work on Bush-Cheney 2004. Then in January 2005 she was appointed Director of Public Affairs for the CIA. She had apparently also worked for then-incoming CIA-Director Porter Goss on Capitol Hill. And her installation appears to have been part of Goss's effort to install Republican operatives in key positions at the Agency. Douglas Jehl, in the Times last January, called her appointment "the latest in a series of former Republican aides to be installed by Mr. Goss in senior positions at the C.I.A."

What it means I do not know. But, in articles like these, threads like those are usually meant to be pulled.

There are LIVES in the balance. Click here. Watch. Listen.

September 17th, 2005 NYT  
Republicans Join in Call for Release of Report on C.I.A.

Jennifer Millerwise Dyck  
Quote:     said that the agency `s focus remained on " improvements in all we do " and that Mr. Helgerson had acted " as required by law " in preparing the report and presenting it to Congress .
    Date: 2005-09-17     Source: nytimes    

Go read it... I don't have time right now. I have a feeling it may be pertinent.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - Senior Republican members of Congress have joined Democrats in asking Porter J. Goss, the C.I.A. director, to declassify and make public an internal agency report that criticizes his predecessor, George J. Tenet, and others for lapses on terrorism in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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that she was thrown into the mix for a purpose:

This bucket of facts is dropped into the piece with no terribly clear explanation. And that's a lot of information about Jennifer Millerwise, isn't it?

She was Cheney's Press Secretary from 2001 to 2003. She then went to work on Bush-Cheney 2004. Then in January 2005 she was appointed Director of Public Affairs for the CIA. She had apparently also worked for then-incoming CIA-Director Porter Goss on Capitol Hill. And her installation appears to have been part of Goss's effort to install Republican operatives in key positions at the Agency. Douglas Jehl, in the Times last January, called her appointment "the latest in a series of former Republican aides to be installed by Mr. Goss in senior positions at the C.I.A."

What it means I do not know. But, in articles like these, threads like those are usually meant to be pulled.  (emphasis mine)

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

This is tinfoil-hat territory, but relevant since it involves one of her many job changes.  Note that she worked for Porter Goss when he was a congressman.  If I'm not mistaken, her stints at the White House and Cheney's office are sandwiched by her two Goss jobs (congress and C.I.A.)

The stone wall of silence erected around the House investigation of John Millis, the late staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, has claimed its first victim. She is Jennifer Millerwise, press spokeswoman for Rep. Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican and the committee chairman.

Miss Millerwise abruptly resigned a week ago and the committee staff has been unable to reach her, according to staff aides to Mr. Goss. She had been assigned the odious task of refusing to answer repeated queries on the Millis investigation when questioned by The Washington Times.

Miss Millerwise told us earlier that she, like one CIA spokesman, did not want to know any details of the circumstances surrounding the House Intelligence Committee probe of Mr. Millis.

The article is from the Washington Times' Bill Gertz, but the link is dead.  I found it via google on an Intelligence Forum archive

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

She has a track record of contacting news outlets to help mold their stories to become more misAdministration-friendly.

Exhibit A from the Toronto Star on April 8, 2003 via CommonDreams.org

You'd think that, what with the U.S. economy in tatters, a 9/11 commission that seems determined to uncover nothing about what happened that fateful day, war being waged on endless fronts (Afghanistan, drugs, Iraq, terrorism and, eventually, Iran and Syria) and who knows what else, the office of the world's second-most powerful person would have more important things on its to-do list than worry about three little words.

But no.

Seems that U.S. Vice-President Richard (Dick) Cheney did not say what The New York Times, the Reuters wire agency, Agence France-Presse, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Miami Herald, the Star and other news organizations said he said.

And yet, the other day, only the Times, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, the Philly News, the Miami Herald and, yes, the Star, all rated calls from no less a personage than Jennifer Millerwise, Cheney's press secretary, who was seeking corrections.

She got them.

We are being carefully watched, it seems.

[snip]

We here at the Star take it as a sign that we're doing our job right. Which means we're doing our job left -- in the view of George W. Bush's Washington.

Millerwise insisted that Cheney did not -- did! not! -- say that Saddam Hussein's terrorist-supporting, Al Qaeda-aligned and weapons-of-mass-destruction-concealing regime would "collapse like a house of cards" the instant it caught "the first whiff of gunpowder."

[snip]

Last week, the Star's foreign editor, Bill Schiller, who engaged Millerwise in a telephone conversation, was bemused by it all, wondering how it was that Cheney's office could be bothered calling a Canadian paper over "semantics."

When I called her to follow up, she said, "This is (Mr. Cheney's) press office, not the National Security Agency."

She explained that it was not a matter of "semantics" but something far more serious, adding that predicting the war would take "weeks not months" and that Iraqi forces would cry uncle was not the same as saying Saddam Hussein's regime would fall like "a house of cards."

A little later she called me a second time to say that accuracy was extremely important "especially during times of war."

I feel like we are finally starting to gaze into Pandora's box.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

Who IS she? Does anyone else find it odd that a 23-year-old would be Press Secretary to a heavyweight congressperson like Goss? If she's 29 now, and she held that position prior to working on the 2000 Bush campaign, she can't have been more than a couple of years out of college. Western Michigan University, no less...

at DailyKos.  Hopefully someone there can help out with the sleuthing.

Recommends are appreciated!

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

From Link

Millerwise has a strong work pedigree for the Bush administration and its loyalists: She has been deputy communications director for the Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign; Vice President Cheney's press secretary; assistant press secretary in the Bush White House; and a regional press coordinator for the Republican National Committee's "Victory 2000" campaign. Millerwise has also worked for Ari Fleischer (at the House Ways and Means Committee); for Spencer Abraham (while he was a senator for Michigan); and for her current boss, CIA Director Goss, when he was a member of Congress. Millerwise, who was Rep. Goss's press secretary, became the CIA's director of public affairs in January. "She is loyal, patriotic, and dedicated to our mission," Goss says. "Her experience and relationships with the media bring a unique asset to the CIA." Millerwise, 29, is from Pinconning, Mich. She has a degree in business administration and political science from Western Michigan University.

[Emphasis added]

Going to Western Michigan University Political Science page I found

Asst. Professor Pete Wielhouwer whose blurb reads, in part,

Most recently he was the speechwriter to the two-star general in charge of coordinating operational experiments for the U.S. military at United States Joint Forces Command's Joint Experimentation directorate, through General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. His teaching and research areas include campaigns and elections, political behavior, faith and politics, and racial politics. He has also been a campaign ethics consultant for (among others) American University's Campaign Management Institute, the American Association of Political Consultants, the Leadership Institute, and several Virginia election campaigns.

Which sounds interesting.

Focusing on Asst. Professor Peter Wielhouwer we find he was the past program chair for the Southwestern Political Science Association (webpage here).  

Officers
President: Jan E. Leighley, University of Arizona,
President-Elect: Lonna Atkeson, University of New Mexico
Vice President & Program Chair: David Lanoue, University of Alabama
Vice President-Elect & Program Chair-Elect: Margaret Ellis, University of Oklahoma
Secretary-Treasurer: Michael K. Moore, University of Texas at Arlington

Executive Council
Kathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University (2007),
Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (2006)
Patricia Jaramillo, University of Texas at San Antonio (2006)
Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside (2007)
Henry Sirgo, McNeese State University (2007)
Gary Wekkin, University of Central Arkansas (2006)

At the January 2005 Conference of the SWPSA we find the following:

PS56: ROUND TABLE: POLITICAL CONSULTANTS DISCUSS THE 2004 ELECTIONS

Moderator:  Peter W. Wielhouwer, Campaign Ethics

Consulting Participants:  
Ray Strother, Strother Duffy Strother
Carlyle Gregory, The Carlyle Gregory Company
Gerry Tyson, The Tyson Organization
Tom Edmonds, Edmonds, Hackney & Associates

Looking at the "Carlyle Gregory Company" we find:

Mr Gregory coordinated Congressman Caldwell Butler's winning reelection campaign in 1974 and organized Virginia Congressman Paul Tribl's campaign in 1976.  In 1978 he managed Newt Gingrich's first successful bid for Congress, and served as Field Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1981 - 1985.  In 1987 he served as a Special Assistant for Political Affairs under President Reagan."

Recent clients include: Tom DeLay, Randy Forbes, Clay Shaw, Dan Miller, Ed Schrock, Ric Keller, Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican Party, and Virginia Delegates Preston Bryant, Terrie Suit, Phil Larabee, Beverly Sherwood, Dave Nutter, and Rob Bell.

REMEMBER THIS GUY IS ON A CAMPAIGN ETHICS PANEL!

More can be found here (This is an HTML version of a pdf document.)

So lets look at good old Ray Strother ...

"Strother-Duffy-Shelton is the "Oldest Existing Democratic Media Firm." This distinction comes from more than 20 years of experience and the ability to win tough campaigns despite long odds. A combination of seasoned political experience, successful media strategies and young, creative talent helps us position our candidates and develop the key messages that resonate with voters."

Can't find any information about their clients.

Edmonds,Hackney & Associates:

"... has been providing award-winning media services to Republican candidates, conservative organizations, and businesses for more than two decades.

"
And we that:

" Edmonds, Hackney and Associates Inc. has organized public relations campaigns for politicians such as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bob Dole, Frank Murkowski, Ted Stevens and Don Young, as well as interest groups such as the National Rifle Association, The Christian Coalition and the Republican Party of Alaska."

This is inconclusive but it gives some rather neat starting points for further research to unravel the connections Ms. Dyck used to land her various jobs.

(One) must still have Chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Nietzsche

I found doing the above research.

So I thought I'd share it!

From Fire Dog Lake.  

(Fire Dog Lake is run by women so don't shoot the poster.  I'm but a poor humble blogger & etc etc etc)

(One) must still have Chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Nietzsche

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"