[Marxism] Judith Miller again

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis and others have written extensively about Judith Miller’s role at  
the New York Times. Miller is long-time personal friend of Times  
publisher Arthur Sulzberger and her articles are justifiably viewed as  
the voice of the New York Times itself. Her support for the Iraq war  
was not just the errant writing of a hawk; it represented the  
considered political judgment of the U.S.’s most important newspaper.

When the Plame incident took place, Miller was not pursuing a story.  
She was participating in propaganda by the Bush White House against  
Joseph Miller. She was not protecting a source for a story. She was  
part of a conspiracy to blacken the image of Joseph Wilson, who had  
just “outed” the White House lies that Iraq had attempted to acquire  
nuclear material from Africa.

As the Downing Street Memo put it. “[T]he intelligence and facts were  
being fixed around the policy ... to remove Saddam, through military  
action.” Judith Miller was part of “fixing” the intelligence and facts  
both in her articles and in the conversation with Libby.

Anyhow, here is an article on Judith Miller trying to explain why she  
was a “martyr” for so long:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?F3B312CEB OR
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/ 
AR2005100401423.html

from Brian Shannon

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