Comments on: Norma Desmond Redux

By: Dot Connector

Dot Connector — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:50:53 +0000

Miller’s photo shows her watch face not centered on its strap. Is this some expensive watch I need to buy?

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:08:40 +0000

Can I tell you how happy I am that Judy will soon be back in the news? I really miss Jane’s Judy posts- they were classic. And you KNOW Judy Miller read them.

Heh.

By: looseheadprop

looseheadprop — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:25:26 +0000

TRYGLITT AT 92 AND MOI AT 84:

Fitz’s very close friend Andy McCarthy writes for the Corner. If someone there got a tip off, say from Team Libby, it is not impossible that they passed it on to Fitz and got a copy of the letter as soon as it was publicly available, as a courtesy.

Nothing wrong in that on either side. There is always back channel communication in big cases. Lots of it.

By: incontext

incontext — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:09:49 +0000

Seems logical to me, based on precedent, that Bush’s ‘declassifications’, if he bothered with them in writingâ€”or legally at all, were performed ‘retroactively’, AFTER he his secret activities were exposed to the public.

Why would he bother to ’secretly’ follow the law when he proudly flouts the law publicly?

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:48:07 +0000

I agree with you re Jill Abramson — Jusy pitched the story to someone. Maureen Down might be read to confirm this last week in her column. MoDo said Judy didn’t print the story because she was prohibited for reporting on the subject — Dowd seems to imply Judy wanted to, but the Times refused. Indeed, can you imagine pugacious Judy (Becky) Sharp NOT pushing to report this?? Jill Abramson or someone else prevented her.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:59:24 +0000

BTW, here is what the key judgements said.

Here’s some of the skeptical stuff in the key judgements.

. . . Iraq possesses significant phosphate deposits, from which uranium had been chemically extracted before Operation Desert Storm. Intelligence information on whether nuclear-related phosphate mining and/or processing has been reestablished is inconclusive, however. . .

. . . the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INRâ€™s assessment, highly dubious. . .

I’m sure Scooter mention those to Judy …

By: Sonoma

Sonoma — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:50:30 +0000

Like Woodward, it may have dawned by now on Miller that she was never nearly as street smart as she once believed.

The difference being she did time in lock-up for her conceit.

The casually declassified cat now being out of the bag, and all her weeks as America’s Free Speech Warrior Behind Bars rendered superfluous, she just might be feeling a bit used. Maybe even a bit miffed. Could even be she’s really, really pissed off.

Pissed off enough to settle a few scores.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:51:57 +0000

So I guess Libby was not told to mischaracterize the key judgments to include the â€œvigorous pursuitâ€ info per the letter that York references?

By: moi

moi — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:24:16 +0000

tryggth-
Maybe Andy MaCarthy knows, he works with York and he’s a friend of Fitz.
Maybe he’ll mention something at the Corner, though I doubt it.

By: moi

moi — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:18:43 +0000

I agree that York is fed information from someone on the inside, I don’t think it’s Rove though. I honestly believe that Rove and Libby are on the outs and have felt this since the morning of Libby’s indictment. Remember the footage of Rove leaving his house all smiles and telling the reporters he was gonna have a great day and he wished them a great day too? What a bastard.

Just for the hell of it, tomorrow I’m going to go through York’s articles from this past year and see if I can figure out who he’s siding with.