Miller: Nothing new, just a great line....

Julian Borger has an article up at the Guardian discussing why Judith Miller isn't being hailed as the martyr she no doubt believes herself to be.

There's really no new information, but I loved this line so much I wanted to spread it far and wide. Here's the line (emphasis mine):

There is the case itself - an ugly, convoluted story of an intelligence leak that turned journalists into human shields for the government.

This has always been my problem with not just Miller, but all the other journalists who had knowledge of the Plame outing but chose to sit on it to help protect Bush, et. al.

They are the dirty cop, the volunteer fireman who sets fires intentionally so he can be the "hero".
They are the accountant who willingly cooks the books.

They sold out their profession for personal glory or to protect their own asses.

They are very much deserving of scorn and not much else........