Times Forgets to Check Voicemail

On Sunday, April 9, the New York Times reported on page A1 that the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby had been authorized to leak to former Times reporter Judith Miller that Iraq was “vigorously trying to procure uranium” to produce a nuclear bomb.

The Times piece said that Libby Read More

Romenesko Digest

Names appearing in the center section of Romenesko for April 6, as of 12:30 p.m., from bottom to top:

Couric, Goodman, Pickford, Couric, Brook Barnes, Katie Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Stanley, Walter [Cronkite], Couric, Chung, [Katie] Couric, Bill Carter, Couric, Couric, Vargas, Williams, Couric, Rooney, Schieffer, Couric, Matea Gold, Murphy, Bob, Bob Schieffer, Read More

Moving On: Miller, Sulzberger Begin Public Appearances

“One person’s whistleblower is another person’s snitch,” Judith Miller said last night. “And they all have to be defended. I was disappointed some of my fellow colleagues didn’t see that.”

Miller was making her first public appearance as a former New York Times reporter, in a panel discussion at a dinner hosted by the Media Read More

Editorials

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are hoping that the country soon forgets last week’s indictment of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on five felony charges, including obstruction of justice and lying to a grand jury. But thanks to the meticulous and measured work of the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Mr. Libby won’t have an easy Read More

Bush’s Aides Scramble As Inquiry Winds Down

Whatever indictments may or may not have issued from the grand jury sitting in Washington by the publication of this column, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has uncovered certain essential facts of the C.I.A. leaks affair.

Most important, his investigation has proved that the exposure of C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame Wilson, as a reprisal against her Read More

Do Miller’s Bosses Still Believe Her?

Of all the evidence that has emerged so far in the C.I.A. leak case, perhaps the most troubling is the bargain struck in July 2003 between New York Times reporter Judith Miller and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

He would provide the covert smears, and she Read More

Times Does Duty, And So Does Judy– But It’s A Hash

“What kind of reporter are you?” Judith Miller asked Don Van Natta Jr. at the third-floor elevator bank of the New York Times Building.

It was Oct. 14, and Ms. Miller was meeting—and confronting—Mr. Van Natta, one of the co-workers assigned to write about her, just off the Times newsroom at the West 43rd Read More

Times Does Duty, And So Does Judy– But It’s A Hash

“What kind of reporter are you?” Judith Miller asked Don Van Natta Jr. at the third-floor elevator bank of the New York Times Building.

It was Oct. 14, and Ms. Miller was meeting—and confronting—Mr. Van Natta, one of the co-workers assigned to write about her, just off the Times newsroom at the West 43rd Read More

Do Miller’s Bosses Still Believe Her?

Of all the evidence that has emerged so far in the C.I.A. leak case, perhaps the most troubling is the bargain struck in July 2003 between New York Times reporter Judith Miller and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

He would provide the covert smears, and Read More

NYT: Miller’s Delays Made Story Miss Deadline

It didn’t take 85 days, but Judith Miller was slow enough to cooperate with the New York Times team reporting on her case that some readers ended up missing the paper’s long-awaited Miller coverage on Oct. 16.

The paper’s two-story Sunday package–a 5,800-word account of Miller’s role in the Valerie Plame affair and Miller’s Read More