Monday, July 18, 2005

Is Judith Miller taking 1st Amendment to avoid taking 5th?

Is Judith Miller sitting in jail on a contempt charge to avoid having to take the Fifth amendment against a criminal conspiracy charge? TalkLeft offers an interesting speculation that seems to explain the evidence currently known by the public.

The discussion provides evidence including Judith Miller's known relationship as a conduit for what Dick Cheney wants to be the agenda for the media and her favored treatment by the military when covering Bush's Iraq War. She has been provided the same releases that Matt Cooper of Time received, and she didn't even publish a story. Why doesn't she come clean?

Journalistic ethics is just a cover for her to protect her ass from criminal charges.

This is speculation, but it does explain the known facts. Now we search for facts that disprove the speculation and can be confirmed as accurate.

(For you Republicans - this is a method of determining the truth behind facts abstracted from reality. It is called The Scientific Method.

This method is a great deal more reliable than depending on the pronouncements of self-serving authorities or waiting for the statements from mystics to tell you how to interpret "The Religious Texts." It is also the only reliable method of determining the best government policies in a multi-cultural society.)

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