Comments on: Judy Miller’s Note-Triggered Memories

By: zazU

zazU — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:49:02 +0000

Pach~

Come to think of it…

Don’t the hardcore Evangelicals fit in this “needy” mold? “Please tell me what to believe?”

Is this what ties the Bushies and the Christianists together?

Oh, shucks,
With all this talk about neediness I’d
have to lump the whole (pardon the expression)
ditz/functional bunch together and who
could be more needy than Bush Sr’s, Baby
George who needed daddy/mommy to prepare
the throne and all the while the jokers
bowing and fawning while the rest of the sycophants play any tune they want to hear. Isn’t this the most crippled and dysfunctional family of aunties, uncles and friends?

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:27:01 +0000

I personally do not believe Miller forgot about the June 23 meeting when testifying before the Grand Jury. I think she conveniently forgot about it, as a favor to Libby, until she was confronted with records of the meeting, probably OVP or Libby’s records. She then went back and “found” her notebook and “remembered” the meeting. I do believe that the meeting took place and that Libby said what Miller described, I just don’t believe Miller’s convenient excuse of “forgetting” the meeting. It may be that the possibility of being sanctioned for this initial perjury that has made her such a cooperative witness for the prosecution.

By: the antithesis

the antithesis — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:11:12 +0000

Pachacutec @
14

I did not find Judy at all imperious. In fact, she came across as very needy.

I used to make her out as a potential narcissist, but she reminds me in a jillion ways, through all very very eloquent and rapid fire non-verbal tells and communications, like a former patient I had for a year. Diagnosis of that one was dependent personality disorder with histrionic features.

…

[snipped for brevity: snb]

so what does that make one who is played by a Judy-type?
Could Scooter have been played by Judy as well?

By: Jeralyn Merritt

Jeralyn Merritt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:03:03 +0000

Bob at 120: There is a courtroom and a media room with a video monitor broadcasting audio and video from the courtroom. You can have a laptop in the media room but not the courtroom. Marcy is liveblogging from the media room. I have been both in the courtroom (without my laptop) and in the media room (with it.)

The main difference is that the media room has no camera showing the jury.

By: r m flanagan

r m flanagan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:28:30 +0000

Over at Just One Minute they seem
sure that this issue will ultimately either lead to a mistrial or provide the rationale for W’s pardon .

By: Cranky Observer

Cranky Observer — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:00:10 +0000

> Wait! If that’s true, how
> are Marcy and the FDL team
> doing their live blogging? ? ? ?

There is a separate “jouralists and bloggers” room with a live video feed.

Cranky

By: emal

emal — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:53:46 +0000

I’m all in agreement with notes refreshing memory of an event for people. At work when things are really busy, there are times when you have 3-4 pressing and important issues going on at a time I often am sometimes just taking notes at certain meetings that are less of a priority for me at the time knowing that “I don’t have to think about this right and I don’t have to worry about this at the time but I know I will need it at a future date so I take lots of notes”. I literally put those thoughts and memories out of my mind in order to focus (and free up my brain cells) on more important and pressing issues I am dealing with at the time. There are times when people will approach me about an issue way into the future, where I say, I can’t even think about that and don’t even ask me about that issue right now because I am so focused on the present issue and concentrating all my efforts and thinking power into the here and now.

But I do have a problem with her just finding the notebooks after her 1st GJ testimony…nah gah buy that one. The reason being, if knew I was testifying about an issue I most definitely would have scrounged around in all my notes (notebooks) from that time period and before to help me refresh my memory. Especially after sitting in jail for 85 days where I had all that free time to actually think about where all my stuff/information was to help me testify.

By: Bill MacLeod

Bill MacLeod — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:22:19 +0000

I used to have problems remembering unless I wrote notes,……..but usually I was to drunk to write notes.

By: Yizmo Gizmo

Yizmo Gizmo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:12:31 +0000

“What really struck me about what happened today is how Fitz truly is in the driver’s seat now. After all the wrangling Judy and him went through, she now has a major perjury hammer hanging over her head if she missteps. She knows it and she’s sweating bullets on the stand.”
-
Yeah, one gets the impression Darth Cheney
is watching her *very* closely. And his whole
shtick is about fear and intimidation.
He pulled it on the CIA. He pulled it on Wolf
Blitzer very recently. What’s to stop
him from pulling the same thing on a little
old lady like Miller?

By: ccmask

ccmask — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:03:22 +0000

Three important links wrt Miller:

7-28-2005, From Huff Post:

For starters, of course, we have her still unfolding involvement in the Plame leak. Earlier this month, Howard Kurtz reported that Miller and Libby spoke a few days before Novak outed Plame — and I’m hearing that the Libby/Miller conversation occurred over breakfast in Washington. Did Valerie Plame come up — and, if so, who brought her up? There is no question that Miller was angry at Joe Wilson… and continues to be. A social acquaintance of Miller told me that, once, when she spoke of Wilson, it was with “a passionate and heated disgust that went beyond the political and included an irrelevant bit of deeply personal innuendo about him, her mouth twisting in hatred.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....._4845.html
snip
In the lead-in period to the Iraqi war, she published article after article about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical/Biological weapons, and Al Qaeda connections. Her sources were un-named, officials and Iraqi expatriots. As Bush increased his stampede to war, her articles fueled the fire - so much so that many now wonder if the Administration was feeding her directly. A few examples: December 20, 2001 - An Iraqi Defector Tells of Work on at Least 20 Hidden Weapons Sites , September 8, 2002 - U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts , September 2, 2002 - White House Lists Iraq Steps To Build Banned Weapons, January 24, 2003 - Defectors Bolster U.S. Case Against Iraq. A complete listing of Judith Miller’s articles from September 11, 2001 to May 26, 2003 produces 165 articles, many in this vein.
http://3oldmen.com/2005/08/01/.....ark-actor/
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That night he wrote an email to his pal, Judith Miller, saying that there were “many dark actors” at work. Two days later, he walked into the woods and was found dead - wrist cut and bloodstream full of a tranquillizer. Not long thereafter, it was announced that he was the only source for the report. Many suspected murder, but an inquest by Lord Hutton declared it a suicide. Miller’s own article [July 21, 2003 - Scientist Was the ‘Bane of Proliferators] about Dr. Kelly was sympathetic but failed to mention their personal relationship, or that his final email was to her.
http://3oldmen.com/2005/08/01/.....ark-actor/
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Why did Judy hate Wilson so much?
Did Judy ever meet Valerie?
Was OSP writing the stories for Judy?
What happened to Dr. Kelly?