Judith Miller is now writing for Newsmax!

[EFerrari]

Terrorism, Money,
And Drugs

John Myers is one of an elite group of American cops trying to clean up a dangerous war zone half a world away.

By Judith Miller

It was the suicide vest that clinched it.

John C. Myers, a veteran law enforcement officer embedded in the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq’s Anbar province, was certainly familiar with the outlawed amphetamine Captagon. Since arriving in Ramadi in the summer of 2009, he’d learned that the drug’s hallucinogenic effects, similar to those of the recreational rave drug Ecstasy, made it popular with Iraqi cops looking for a jolt.

A top drug smuggler arrested in Anbar earlier that year described drug labs in Syria and warned his Iraqi interrogators that insurgents were making a fortune dealing drugs.

But Myers, 52, a tall, taut fitness fanatic who’s spent more than 20 years in law enforcement, didn’t really focus on the tiny white pills until June, when Iraqi cops found 16 of them in the vest pocket of a suicide bomber who’d attacked an American convoy in the Anbar province capital.

“That was my ‘aha’ moment,” Myers says. Drugs were paying for terrorism and terrorists were being paid in drugs.

http://w3.newsmax.com/a/jan11/terrorism/

:party: :rofl: :party:

[bullwinkle428]

1. What a piece of work she is.

[rucky]

2. Perfect!

But there's so many other fiction writers out there looking to get published, why should she get all the work?

[Enrique]

3. there goes their reputation

:rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. oh noze!

the whorer, the whorer.

[EFerrari]

10. Breitbart and WorldNutDaily better look out!

:rofl:

[malaise]

4. Ah well she's gone home

:puke:

[City Lights]

6. A match made in heaven.

:puke: all around.

[karynnj]

7. The NYT .... to ... Newsmax

I had seen her on Fox News, but the idea that someone able to get a job on the NYT would end up at newsmax almost sounds like a cautionary tale to young journalists of what happens when they lose their souls.

[DCKit]

25. +1. Very, very well said. nt

[Supersedeas]

29. or a cautionary tale about the types that the new NYT is willing to send through the rotation

[closeupready]

8. Haha! How fitting.

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

9. Well, there goes NM's journalistic integrity and objectivity.

/jk

:rofl:

[gkhouston]

11. Oh, so now they're paying her *openly*... n/t

[Marr]

12. "A tall, taut fitness fanatic"...

I don't mean to diverge from your point, but have you ever noticed how often these kinds of descriptions pop up in the writings of people on the right? They seem to make a fetish of masculinity, and their descriptions of cops, military personnel, etc., often ooze over into the overtly sexual range. I remember reading something by Tom Clancy once where he described one of the protagonists as "230 pounds of lean, hard meat", for instance. Kind of made me do a double take.

[EFerrari]

14. Yep. Most of what they do is call up associations

rather than develop trains of thought, imo, so the phallic stuff never gets looks at but just passed along. I think that's why they don't do comedy very well because their language isn't really in good control so things like rhythm, sound, metaphor and timing (poetics, really) are mishandled or not handled, if that makes sense.

[Sal Minella]

18. "Tall and taut" is good . . . but the roots, Judith . . .

tell us all about connecting at the roots . . .

[DCKit]

26. It's even more jarring and downright creepy when you hear it on an audio book. nt

[Vinnie From Indy]

13. Judith Miller is simply drenched in the blood of the dead in Iraq

This piece is actually quite amusing in that Miller makes this Myers guy and the US Army look like morons. She offers that Myers only has his "Ah-Ha" moment when he finds pills in some suicide bomber's vest. Well gee, one would have thought that the US Army has known for decades that drug smuggling and manufacturing has paid for conflict all over the world. One would also assume that the US Army would by now have a firm grasp of the drug trade in Iraq and how that may fund operations of dissidents. Miller makes it appear that Myers has had no prior briefing on the drug trade in Iraq. According to Miller, he had to stumble upon this heinous activity while on the job.

She is a dumb ass, lying sack of shit and a horrible writer to boot.
Cheers!

[EFerrari]

15. Like a monkey playing Bach on a blender.

You just want it to stop.

lol

[11 Bravo]

19. She's certainly drenched in something as she swoons over the "tall, taut fitness fanatic".

Sit on a towel, Judy.

[dave29]

16. Good. Catch.

Wow.

[EFerrari]

17. Greg Mitchell had it this morning in his blog. n/t

[Octafish]

31. Good guy, Mitchell. His Editor & Publisher got bought by Carlyle Group.

As you know, Eesa. This might be news:

Abu Dhabi Increases Stake in Carlyle Group

Wonderful people. Interested in the truth, I'm told.

[EFerrari]

33. That is news. I wonder if the vultures are circling around Poppy.

Miss E&P. That was a great outlet.

[struggle4progress]

20. ... After leaving the Times, Miller became a Fox News contributor and a fellow at the Manhattan

Institute, writing occasional, reported op-eds about the Middle East. Miller's latest story for Newsmax marks a return to the men-in-danger-at-the-outskirts-of-American-empire reporting she used to do for the Times ...
Judith Miller Joins Newsmax
Posted Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:23 PM | By David Weigel
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/12/29/judith-miller-joins-newsmax.aspx

The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan's CIA director ... http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research

... Among early investors in NewsMax were Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy's former boss at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ... http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NewsMax.com

[myrna minx]

21. Gives new meaning to "The aspens...turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

22. She wears it well

It's one of the few places where journalistic ethics are frowned upon.

[gratuitous]

23. Yes, Judith should have no further difficulties with journalistic ethics

And what a coup for Newsmax, to hire royalty such as the Queen of All Fucking Iraq.

[EFerrari]

24. I'd love to look at her calendar right about now.

On the other hand, Brian Lamb has people from Newsmax and WorldNutDaily on all the time and pretends they have some relationship to journalism.

[DCKit]

27. "...pretends they have some relationship to journalism..." Or credibility.

Was she finally fired from the NYT, or is Newsmax (as a conduit) paying better for her unflagging support and services to BushCo*?

[EFerrari]

28. She "retired" in 2005.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9980972/ns/us_news-leak_investigation

[Octafish]

30. ''Drug labs in Syria'' must be right next to the WMDs smuggled outta Eyerack.

Ms. Miller was born to work at Newsmax. Everybody there wears knee pads.

[SoCalDem]

32. She always wrote for their subscribers/readers.. why not get a check from them? n/t

[EFerrari]

35. How long 'till she gets big hair?

lol

[SoCalDem]

37. She's an "off-camera" age, so Newsmax works for her.

Fox would never want her:(

[Hell Hath No Fury]

34. A partnership made in RW heaven.

Peas in a pod. It was inevitable. :D

[EFerrari]

36. This just about made me day.

:)