Judith Miller ordered jailed!

Adding things as I Tivo back. (I love Tivo)

I just heard it on MSNBC.

NYT reporter Judith Miller...

She remains free...

Federal Judge holding her in contempt.

For refusing to divulge a confidential source.

Stupid MSNBC talking head said "Ambassador George Wilson"

Dumb bitch just said "Victoria Plam"

If they don't have fact-checkers, you'd think someone there would be up on the case enough to know the names invovled.

US. District Judge Thomas Hogan (is that his name?) ordered her jailed until she agrees to testify about her sources before the grand jury, but that she could remain free while persuing an appeal.

She could be jailed up to 18 months.


Lawyer on the show (MSNBC talking head, not one involved) said "The special prosecutor tried every other way to get that information but they couldn't so contempt was the last resort.

That's it.

you're kidding me...

Along with Friedman, Safire, Brooks.....

So when do we get to see Novak doing the perp walk?

It can't be for allowing herself to be used by Ahmed Chalabi and the PNACers, though that ought to be a crime too.

I can't believe it! How will she maintain that Anna Wintour hairdo in jail?

as I rewind my Tivo. Can't concentrate on it 100% though. I have MSNBC on waiting for Kerry to speak.

I hope she rots there

Just answer the questions and you can go free.

What the hell though? Why is Robert Novack walking free???

They think of Miller as a brave sister protecting her sources, so screw the people her sources harmed (on behalf of the government, I might add).

Surely, colluding to mislead the American people about an illegal war should warrant some kind of jail time...

Not that I mind, mind you, in this case. But i'll be happy when some bolas get hauled off.....

I think I just had an orgasm over that. :evilgrin:

Hope she gets put in a cell with some poor woman whose kid is fighting in Iraq right now.

or Susan McDougal....

Now how about Novak?

She wouldn't have dreamed it was possible when she was in Afghanistan, ordering officers around, and threatening to make trouble for them with her Washington contacts if they didn't bow to her demands.



Thank ya, Jeezus!

Alll things being equal, mind you ....

Journalists have an obligation to protect confidential sources. However, Miller has not exactly been a bastion of fairness in reporting, to say the least. I, and many others, would sure be interested in knowing what she knows ...

in any normal situation, i would agree that we need to aggressively protect a free press ... and her outrageous whoring for bush in Iraq is not a sufficient reason to jail her ...

HOWEVER, it does not seem credible to me to argue for the importance of confidential sources when the case at hand is the outing of confidential sources ... the Plame affair is "high treason", a crime punishable by death ... the press cannot "out" a CIA agent and then hide behind the importance of confidential sources ... that is hypocrisy I am not willing to endorse ...

Do we want confidential sources in the gov't that are committing felonies for political purposes? Exactly what is Miller protecting here? The ability for gov't officials to commit crimes without fear of consequences.

This is not at all a first ammendment issue. The people she's "protecting" have committed a crime. If sources like that dry up, good! We don't want people like that in or near the seats of power.
The Professor

Gawd, this woman deserves to be in jail. I don't
understand why she still has a job even.

should be chosen by all the people harmed by her 'journalistic' renderings that allowed this war to occur.

She'll sit there patiently, waiting on the Administration to send her a cake w/ a file in it.

"Steno Judy in the Big House". Sounds like a Russ Meyer film.

good for what she did.

The repuke party is IMPLODING! I like it! It's about time and none too soon, I might add.

for refusing a court order to deluge her source.