Judith Miller and Tom Friedman - An Axis of Evil

Two leading shills for the Iraq war at the Times were Judy Miller and Tom Friedman.

Miller is more in the news lately, and may be in more trouble. But Friedman shouldn't get off. Friedman even recently wrote about Bush and Chaney "These guys know how to pull the trigger." Friedman wrote that it was important for the US to show the Islamic world that the US would go to war, and crush some government or other. And that Afganistan was too small a target to teach the lesson.

When Bush said that Iraq was a threat to its neighbors, it was a code for American Jews that Iraq was a threat to Isreal. Isreal supported the war for that reason, and so did Tom Friedman.

It now appears that Judy Miller actually went to jail to protect "Scooter" Libby and Chaney. You can deduce she was lying about the Valerie Flame and Victoria Plame notes...Other than a recent stroke, there's no way a reporter would forget where those names in her own notes came from, especially after 85 days in jail to think about it.

Now's the problem with Libby leaking classified information. Miller made up this story about security clearance to cover up for Libby. She also concocted a "nom de leak" source [former capital staffer] to cover up for Libby.

BrooklynDodger wonders whether Miller was just a "sniffer at the hemline of power" or whether another feature went higher up.

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Officials unaware of reporter's special status

NY Times' Miller wrote she had 'security clearance' for Iraq WMD reporting


By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 4:24 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2005


Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent

WASHINGTON — Officials from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon say they have no idea what New York Times reporter Judith Miller was talking about when she claimed to have been given a "security clearance" while she was embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq in 2003.

In a first-person account of her recent testimony before a federal grand jury, published in the newspaper on Sunday, Miller wrote the Pentagon had given her "clearance to see secret information as part of my assignment 'embedded' with a special military unit hunting for unconventional weapons."