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In reply to the discussion: Jon Stewart LAYS INTO Judith Miller: You PUSHED US Into ‘Devastating’ Iraq Mistake [View all]Astrid_g
(7 posts)The idea that Judith Miller is just some innocent reporter who reported the "consensus" among the intelligence community is completely asinine.
The intelligence community was not "wrong", like Miller contends. The truth is that Judith Miller was FED information directly by the Bush administration, who then conveniently used her articles as fodder to go to war. Her job was to feed to the American people what she had been fed by the Bush administration.
She later outed CIA operative Valerie Plame--classified information that came from none other than Cheney's trusted adviser Scooter Libby. Bush then went on to commute Libby's sentence.
Judith Miller should not be blaming the intelligence community; she should be blaming herself for allowing herself to be a pawn and for being a megaphone to disseminate lies as a pretext for war.
She seems to have no idea how serious of an infraction she's guilty of. "I wasn't the only one who got it wrong" is weak. Ignorance in numbers is not an excuse. We've lost thousands of lives, millions of dollars, and we've planted seeds we still later have to sow. Yet she remains unapologetic, obfucastory and defensive.