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from xymphora
Entered into the database on Friday, September 30th, 2005 @ 15:59:40 MST |
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The Judith Miller case
doesn't make any more sense than it ever did. She spent 85 days
in jail to avoid doing what she has now apparently agreed to do, rat out Scooter
Libby. Libby could have given her the unconditional specific waiver
she claims to have required at any time, but didn't. Or rather, he claims he
gave it over a year ago, and subsequently, but she didn't accept it. Libby's
lawyer, laying it on awfully thick, said
(my emphasis): "We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to
learn we had anything to do with her incarceration." Amazing! More weirdness
from the New York Times itself, referring to Bill Keller, the executive
editor, repeating another claim of Libby's lawyer: "Mr. Keller said that Mr. Fitzgerald had cleared the way to an agreement
by assuring Ms. Miller and her source that he would not regard a conversation
between the two about a possible waiver as an obstruction of justice." This is getting silly. Fitzgerald now has to bless the waiver that they claim
to have been talking about for a year? The waiver that Fitzgerald wanted so
that Miller would testify? It appears likely that the real story is that Fitzgerald
finally had enough on Libby to go after him without Miller, so it was no longer
necessary for Miller to keep her mouth shut as Libby was finished anyway. The
fan dance about the waiver is a trick to hide the truth. The deal
apparently is that Miller will testify, but only about her conversations with
Libby, thus protecting anyone else in the White House she might have talked
to, and, as an added bonus, protecting her own reputation if she took a more
active role in the outing of Plame than she is prepared to admit. As Libby is
doomed anyway, a decision appears to have been made to sacrifice him in order
to protect someone more important. That would have to be Dick Cheney himself,
who needs protection so he can run for President (and win, due to the crooked
voting machines). Miller going to jail makes no sense unless we assume that: 1. Libby's lawyer and the White House had to be convinced
that Libby was going to be indicted anyway, and that convincing wasn't finished
at the time Miller had to head off to jail (it required the testimony of other
journalists and whatever else Fitzgerald was able to dig up); 2. the charade about Libby's consent was necessary to allow
Miller to play the press martyr role long enough to put pressure on Fitzgerald
to agree to limit the scope of Miller's testimony; and 3. the White House finally agreed that it was necessary
to sacrifice Libby in order to protect Cheney, a concession that may actually
have been precipitated by the loss of White House mojo caused by Bush's failed
response to Katrina. Miller gets to continue to play the role of martyr, Fitzgerald gets Libby -
Cheney would have been overreaching, and dangerous to attempt - and Libby is
temporarily inconvenienced, until his pardon and appointment to a cushy think
tank job and his eventual reappearance in the new Cheney cabinet. Everybody
wins! |