Miller as one of the six reporters contacted and told about Plame did not write an article "smearing" Valerie Plame.

Idle Speculation

If Miller wrote an article attacking Plame, Miller may have worried that there was a possibility that someone could trace elements of Millers WMD articles back to information in CIA documents developed by covert CIA WMD expert Valerie Plame. (The run-up to the Iraq invasion was built in part on classified CIA WMD information.)

Millers initial concern would be about being exposed for publishing classified information (culled from Plame CIA documents). Miller has security clearance so she is privy to the documents contents. Or gains security clearance to justify viewing or possessing classified information.

If I wanted a rubber stamp I could've bought one at Staples. And you can be damn sure it would have more backbone than the one I've got now.

I want a Lowell Weicker.

This time, Nixon gets impeached. And no Gerald Ford.


I want a Lowell Weicker.

Now.

(By Gabriel Brown -- slightly modified, to fit)

The jinx is me, Georgie,
I don't have no luck at all, don't you see.

I once told to get a reading, that was the very best thing for you,
Well, that Gypsy told me Georgie, you will jinx everything you do.

The jinx is me, Georgie,
I don't have no luck at all, don't you see.

Me and my friends played our numbers, just as happy as happy could be,
All my friends got paid, everybody else got debt as far as the eye can see.

The jinx is me, Georgie,
I don't have no luck at all, don't you see.

I wanted to play the guitar, I just wore myself out trying,
It's hard work but I just keep playing, all the while people are dying.

The jinx is me, Georgie,
I don't have no luck at all, don't you see.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can make a man abuse a king.
He can walk the streets and boast like most
But he wouldn't know a thing.
Now, it's all been done before,
It's all been written in the book,
But when there's too much of nothing,
Nobody should look.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can turn a man into a liar,
It can cause one man to sleep on nails
And another man to eat fire.
Ev'rybody's doin' somethin',
I heard it in a dream,
But when there's too much of nothing,
It just makes a fella mean.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Copyright © 1967; renewed 1995 Dwarf Music
(More words of Blind Boy Grunt)

Crash on the levee,
Water's gonna overflow,
Swamp's gonna rise,
No boat's gonna row.
Now, you can train on down
To williams point,
You can bust your feet,
You can rock this joint.
But oh, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

Now, don't you try an' move me,
You're just gonna lose.
There's a crash on the levee
And, you've been refused.
Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt,
If you go down in the flood,
It's gonna be your own fault.
Oh, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

Well, that high tide's risin',
don't you let me down.
Pack up your suitcase,
don't you make a sound.
Now, it's king for king,
Queen for queen,
It's gonna be the meanest flood
That anybody's seen.
Oh, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

I'm going down in Louisiana, baby, behind the sun
I'm going down in Louisiana, honey, behind the sun
Well, you know I just found out my troubles just begun


JINX BLUES (edit)
by Big Joe Williams

Woke up in the mornin', jinx all 'round his bed
Woke up in the mornin', jinx all 'round his bed
Well, didn't have nobody now, nowhere to lay his achin' head

Well, it's peoples tryin' to tell him low-down jinx ain't bad
Well, it's peoples tryin' to tell him low-down jinx ain't bad
Well, then it must not a been them low-down jinx his pet levee had.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm

On October, 10, 2002 Bev Harris, author of the upcoming Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century, revealed that Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has ties to the largest voting machine company, Election Systems & Software (ES&S). She reported that he was an owner, Chairman and CEO of Election Systems & Software (called American Information Systems until name change filed in 1997). ES&S was the ONLY company whose machines counted Hagel's votes when he ran for election in 1996 and 2002. The Hill, a Washington D.C. newspaper that covers the U.S. national political scene, confirmed her findings today and uncovered more details.


MuldraughTim's diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/29/635/13717