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There - I've never posted on of those before.

I don't know how the moonbats do it for years on end...I think it gave me carpal tunnel

I realize that Sundays are Ace's hangover/clinic test result days, and as such you're overworked here Dr Symes, but not a thing on the OKC bombing?
Or even on that moron Drudge burying it halfway down the site while trumpeting: "Sutherland blasts Bush".

Yeah, saw that bombing. What's the story? Just some kid decided to blow himself up, right? Not terrorist ties or nothing, I just don't see the dealio.

Er, that's me above.

This is an interesting development - journalist groups in a tizzy because its over.

Pillars of journalism? I always thought the 3 pillars of journalism were lie, cheat, and steal.

MIAMI HERALD

New York Times reporter Judith Miller's decision to escape jail by testifying about her conversations with a confidential source surprised some of her supporters and left journalists wondering what her choice will mean for press freedoms...

...News of her release from jail was greeted with joy by some of the organizations that had supported her, but also some dismay.

"Miller's release is obviously good news in itself," said the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, "but she recovered her freedom in exchange for naming her source, albeit with the source's agreement, which means that the principle of the confidentiality of sources, one of the pillars of journalism, has been flouted."

...predicted its outcome would embolden other prosecutors to investigate press leaks, jailing reporters if necessary.

"This is very dangerous territory," she said.

Howard Devore: I got the OU bombing covered here and here. I sent a link to Ace last night, but never heard back from him.

OK - I take it back, Doc. That actually IS a lot simpler than the mosque theory.

So much for standing on principle, not that she had any defensible principle to stand on in the first place.

So now that the prosecuter has broken the "reporter", she had better spill her guts and finally "speak truth to power," the power of a panel of citizens serving as a grand jury.

We need to put a stop to this manufacturing of synthetic scandals for partisian purposes. It's diverting at best and disinformational at worst. Of course, it can unjustly ruin careers and lifes too.

I'll bet that when the truth comes out, Joe Wilson will be the source, but that's just my speculation.

Of course, I never spend a dime on the WaPo or the NYT and cancelled my local paper in part because they stuffed their fishwrapper with this crapola. Maybe the best way to deal with the problem is have their revenues evaporate.

Apparently Fitzgerald offered a deal. He would limit his interrogation to questions about Libby. It appears that he wants to close out that part of his investigation.

And then?

He says he'll impanel a new Grand Jury. If he's done with the Libby/Rove 'leak', what is he pursuing? And further, if this is the threat that broke Judy Miller, what is she concealing?

Fitzgerald may very well have promised to limit his questions in front of this Grand Jury without any guarantee for the successor GJ. Judy Miller may find herself back in front of a prosecutor, and back in jail, in a matter of months.

lyle: Now that would make sense. Otherwise hard to see why Fitz would sign away the one interesting part of her testimony.

Miller's lawyer's tale

Chaucer?

Arianna is reporting a $1.2M book deal for Miller.

BOOKDEAL