New York Times: Regrets, Confusion Over Miller and Her Source

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBUA2WHUEE.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Shortly after tasting freedom for the first time in nearly three months, New York Times reporter Judith Miller went for a massage and a manicure. She enjoyed a martini, a steak dinner and the fresh air.

That was the easy part. The once-jailed reporter's subsequent return to the paper's 43rd Street newsroom, where she was viewed as a polarizing figure, was fraught with anxiety. She found her co-workers "confused and perplexed" about her jail term for protecting a Bush administration source, and about her paper's apparent inability to rein in the Pulitzer Prize- winner, according to a lengthy article posted Saturday on the Times' Web site.

The article was the newspaper's first behind-the-scenes look at the information provided to Miller by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and how it landed her behind bars for 85 days. It marked the second time in 2 1/2 years that the paper published an investigation of itself, following the 2003 Jayson Blair plagiarism and fraud debacle.

Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson, asked what she regretted about the Times' handling of the Miller case, replied simply: "The entire thing."

Confusion? Who is confused? Everything seems to be clear as an azure sky to me. The people at the NYT appear to be the ones who are confused.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Judy Miller is a liar and a traitor and the NYT is complicit.

I am not confused either. The NYT is confused perhaps, I am not.

[lovuian]

2. Yes because they know she lied and is caught!!! and they helped

abetted and supported a traitor to this country!!!

[texpatriot2004]

3. Wonder how they will recover from that? nm