Judith-Come-Lately -- But Too Late for Scooter Libby When revelation of truth occurs just in time to promote a book but far too late to serve justice or to undo an injustice.
Judith Miller Reveals in Her New
Book, "The Story," that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
"Manipulated" her Flawed Recollection to Convict Scooter Libby in
Connection with "Outing" Valerie Plame as a CIA "Operative"
Despite Fitzgerald Having Known that Richard Armitage Did It.
Judith-Come-Lately --
But Too Late for Scooter Libby that in 2015 Judith Miller Reveals in Her New
Book, "The Story," that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
"Manipulated" her Flawed Recollection to Convict Scooter Libby in
Connection with "Outing" Valerie Plame as a CIA "Operative"
Despite Fitzgerald Having Known that Richard Armitage Did It.
Former New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, in promoting her new book,
The Story, on April 7, 2015, drew attention to aspects of her
book focusing on the criminal prosecution and conviction of former
Vice-President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, in connection with a
"leak" identifying Valerie Plame as a CIA "operative" who
had arranged for her husband, Joe Wilson, to travel to Niger to
"investigate" intelligence reports (before Bush 43 launched
Operation Iraqi Freedom) that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure (but not
succeeded in procuring) "yellowcake" uranium from Niger for a
nuclear-weapons program. (Rest of this installment continues below the
video.)
(Click image above to view video)
In what is manifestly a Judith-Come-Lately
fashion both in her new book and her publicity-tour touting it, she (belatedly)
asserts that in such prosecution of Scooter Libby, the former Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald manipulated her (Miller's) flawed recollection of her
conversations with Scooter Libby in order for Fitzgerald to convict Scooter
Libby in connection with such leak even though Fitzgerald
knew from a time almost immediately after his appointment as
Special Prosecutor:
That
Fitzgerald railroaded Libby (and that Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson were
operating as political moles against Bush 43's foreign policy) is not
"news" to anyone knowledgeable about the case at the time.
What's "news" is that it isn't until now -- nearly a decade
after Libby was railroaded into a felony conviction (by a jury in the
overwhelmingly liberal-Democrat venue of Washington, D.C. overtly hostile to
anyone and everyone in the Bush 43 Administration) and then disbarred
as a lawyer on the basis of such conviction -- that Judith Miller has chosen
to draw public attention to the way Fitzgerald used her flawed recollection to
persecute Scooter Libby.
Why now and not then? Someone should ask her. And she should explain
why it's taken her so long to do the right thing. But to her credit, she
also explains (albeit belatedly) how and why it was specious for critics of Bush
43 to accuse his administration of having falsified evidence that Saddam still
possessed weapons of mass destruction.
To view the video titled "Wilson & Plame -- CIA-APM," click the
image above. Immediately below is the permanent link to this
installment:
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