Miller Gets No Sympathy From Arianna

Do not count Arianna Huffington among those participating in the wailing, moaning and knashing of teeth over Judy Miller's imprisonment. Ms. Huffington brings to light Miller's special relationships with the neocons in the WH with her post yesterday at The Huffington Post Miller’s special relationships go much further than Scooter Libby, Richard Perle and the rest of the neocon establishment. Take her involvement as an embedded reporter during the war with the Pentagon’s Mobile Exploitation Team (MET) Alpha -- the unit charged with hunting down Saddam’s WMD. As extensively reported by both Kurtz and New York Magazine’s Franklin Foer, Miller’s time with the unit was highly unusual. First, there was the fact that she landed the plum assignment in the first place. It would give her first dibs on the biggest story of the war… the hoped-for reveal of Saddam’s much-touted WMD (with much of the touting done by Miller herself and her special sources). Was this the reward for her pro-administration prewar reporting? Foer cites military and New York Times sources as saying that Miller’s assignment was so sensitive that Don Rumsfeld himself signed off on it. Once embedded, Miller acted as much more than a reporter. Kurtz quotes one military officer as saying that the MET Alpha unit became a “Judith Miller team.” Another officer said that Miller “came in with a plan. She was leading them… She ended up almost hijacking the mission.” A third officer, a senior staffer of the 75th Exploitation Task Force, of which MET Alpha was a part, put it this way: “It’s impossible to exaggerate the impact she had on the mission of this unit, and not for the better.” What did Miller do to create such an impression? According to Kurtz, she wasn’t afraid to throw her weight around, threatening to write critical stories and complain to her friends in very high places if things didn’t go her way. “Judith,” said an Army officer, “was always issuing threats of either going to the New York Times or to the secretary of defense. There was nothing veiled about that threat.” Thank you Arianna!! Finally someone has enough spunk to write the truth about that witch with the blood-stained hands. She is just as much to blame for the needless deaths of not only Iraqi's, but the young men and women in the US military as King George himself. Through her constant trumpeting of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld lies regarding the reasons the Iraq war was necessary. There is a special place in hell reserved for this bunch. It's too damn bad they couldn't be imprisoned in Abu Gharib first. I would urge you all to go to the link below and read Arianna's entire post and the comments that were left. I assure you it will be very eye-opening. MORE.....