Maureen O'Dowd on Judith Miller. "Woman of Mass Destruction"

[tuvor]

She never knew when to quit. That was her talent and her flaw. Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, she was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers. She more than earned her sobriquet "Miss Run Amok."

Judy's stories about WMD fit too perfectly with the White House's case for war. She was close to Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who was conning the neocons to knock out Saddam so he could get his hands on Iraq, and I worried that she was playing a leading role in the dangerous echo chamber that former Senator Bob Graham dubbed "incestuous amplification." Using Iraqi defectors and exiles, Mr. Chalabi planted bogus stories with Judy and other credulous journalists.

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When Bill Keller became executive editor in the summer of 2003, he barred Judy from covering Iraq and W.M.D issues. But he admitted in The Times' Sunday story about Judy's role in the Plame leak case that she had kept "drifting" back. Why did nobody stop this drift?

Judy admitted in the story that she "got it totally wrong" about WMD "If your sources are wrong," she said, "you are wrong." But investigative reporting is not stenography.

Found it via AMERICAblog.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102205A.shtml

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Judith Miller is a regrettable excuse for a human being.

That "person" bears an unfortunate likeness to Peter Pan.

[tuvor]

4. Miller, or the avatar?

If the latter, it's Booji Boy, Devo's mascot.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Miller, however,

"Do you have the papers the chinaman sent you? Oh no, we're all DEVO!" or something like that I recall.

[Bozita]

2. "best knife job I've ever seen" -- fellow DUer (sorry, can't remember)

last slash is the deepest:


    Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.

 

[tuvor]

3. delete

[WearyOne]

6. delicious !..talk about putting the knife in..

[tuvor]

7. Kicking for the morning crowd n/t