Month: October 2005

Excellent reporting at TomDispatch lists key experienced professionals in top federal and military posts who have been demoted, forced out, sacked or who have resigned in disgust at the policies and methods of BushCo.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=28817

This is the real cost of cronyism – the loss of top management in every area. This is Fascism. This will affect the US and the world for years to come.

I have nothing to add. I just wanted to point out an excellent compendium of facts, and also that Tom Engelhardt is seeking further information on the Fallen Legion.

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These comments intrigued me at the time, never disregarded them, so here is a repeat ::

In excellent diary by spiderleaf @dKos —
Plame Leak Timeline II… the case is made (Gannon)
Sat Feb 05, 2005 at 06:28:36 PM PDT

a discourse between her and Thinking Republican.

      link to thread, go upwards

Becomes more interesting below the fold »»

Welcome to a French breakfast on a sunny morning.

What are you doing on a saturday morning?

According to “a source”, Judith Miller will not face charges related to the Plame leak investigation:

One person who will not be charged is Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify in the case before making two recent appearances before the grand jury. Miller was recently told by Fitzgerald that she is only a witness in the case, according to a source close to Miller.

That source could well be Miller’s lawyer:

“Judy has always been a witness in this case and nothing more,” said Robert S. Bennett, Miller’s attorney. “She is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation.”

If Bennett is indeed the source, can we trust what he says?

more…

Many of you are smitten with Juan Cole’s roasting of Judith Miller at Salon. Cole calls Miller’s WMD reporting “embarrassingly bad” and says she became a “stenographer to a motley crew of neoconservative hawks and Iraqi expatriate wheelers and dealers.”

Then there’s Jane Hamsher’s grotesque BBQ image in her excellent “Grand Jury Barbecue Time.” That image is nowhere as obscene as CNN’s ghoulish “gimme-an-R-for-ratings!” fixation on the NOLA hospital “mercy killings” and that whacked-out doctor CNN keeps interviewing who said, after he walked out before outside help arrived, that it was better to abandon his patients than help them die. (Huh?)

Take in Arianna’s “Advance Word on the Times’ Judy-Culpa.” “[It’s] definitely coming on Sunday … Judy’s camp is worried that it’s going to be very hard on her.”

… I’ve been told that Miller has been “ordered” to write a first-person, what-I-told-the-grand-jury account.

[Judy heads] west this weekend to attend a conference at Cal State Fullerton called, I kid you not, “Power to the People: Unlocking Government for the Public and Press and the Blogs!” Provide your own punchline. … Miller will present a special award on Saturday honoring Mark “Deep Throat” Felt. …

You’d think Miller would be in New York, working on her first-person story and helping the Times team close its piece (I mean, it’s not like there’s not a lot riding on it).

No shit. Just like there was a lot riding on “President Bush’s staged TV event with U.S. soldiers.” (Read Pat Lang’s condemnation.) I keep thinking that if only Rove hadn’t been prepping for his four and a half hours of testimony today, Bush’s staged event would have gone off seamlessly. Cry me a river….

BYO — and PLEASE SHARE! Then let’s kick back and watch Bill Maher and his guests, “Sen. Max Cleland, editor Tina Brown, and comedian Larry Miller, Sen. John Edwards, Chief Richard Pennington, and author Tom Wolfe.” (Here’s hopin’ Catnip and Olivia bring us some of that high proof Canadian brew!)