The Inimitable
Murray Waas has another expose. We all know by now that both Libby and Miller lied about the June 23rd meeting. And, if were to believe published accounts and MSM talking points, Miller remembered about the June 23rd meeting after seeing her notes. She said so in an interview with
WSJ.
In a brief telephone interview yesterday, Ms. Miller said she discovered the June 2003 notes in her office after being prompted to seek out answers to another question Mr. Fitzgerald had asked her. "There was an open question about something, and I said I would go back and look and see if there was anything in my notes that would address that question," she said yesterday.
WRONG!. She was caught lying, again!
New York Times reporter Judith Miller told the federal grand jury in the CIA leak case that she might have met with I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on June 23, 2003 only after prosecutors showed her Secret Service logs that indicated she and Libby had indeed met that day in the Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, according to attorneys familiar with her testimony.
Here is what happened:
When a prosecutor first questioned Miller during her initial grand jury appearance on September 30, 2005 sources said, she did not bring up the June 23 meeting in recounting her various contacts with Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney. Pressed by prosecutors who then brought up the specific date of the meeting, Miller testified that she still could not recall the June meeting with Libby, in which they discussed a controversial CIA-sponsored mission to Africa by former Ambassador Joe Wilson, or the fact that his wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA.
So, she forgets about the June 23rd meeting? So, what actually happened at the meeting.
Miller testified in her second grand jury appearance that it was during this June 23 meeting that she and Libby first discussed Plame's CIA employment. Miller's notes of that meeting contained the notation, regarding Wilson, "Wife works in bureau?"
So, this was the first time Libby revealed the name, and she forgot the date. She also lied about it, till the prosecutors caught her red-handed. Then she spins the story in the media that she testified about the June 23rd meeting when she discovered her notes. Can you believe this person?
Another intriguing issue is the following.
Miller also testified about telephone conversations she had with Libby regarding Plame and Wilson on July 12, 2003. In her Times article she wrote of a single phone call from Libby that day.
The first phone call lasted three minutes, the phone record indicated. Miller testified that she believed she might have taken the call on her cellphone in a cab, and told Libby she would soon talk to him after she arrived home, although she was unsure of this, according to the sources familiar with her grand jury testimony.
The second telephone conversation between Libby and Miller lasted for 37 minutes, according to telephone records examined by attorneys familiar with her grand jury testimony. Miller told the grand jury that she believed that telephone conversation took place after she had arrived at her home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., although she was not entirely sure.
Connect this fact to Libby's letter to Miller. As eriposte @ Left Coaster points out,
Because, as I am sure will not be news to you, the public report of every other reporter's testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plame's name or identity with me, or knew about her before our call.
Questions:
- Was Libby referring to this July 12th call?
- Was Libby urging Miller to not testify about the June 23rd meeting?
- Why did Miller go along?
- Why did she continue to lie about this meeting?
And, Miller is eager to tell more. More than what she revealed to NYTimes editors, and what she wrote in her own personal account of the events. Talk about loyalty!
Earlier in the week, she returned a reporter's phone call and left a voice mail saying, "I can say that I read you in prison" and that she was eager to talk and tell more of her side of the story beyond what she had written in a first-person account of her grand jury testimony that was published on October 16 in The Times. But Miller did not return several phone calls later in the week.