[Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F.] Hogan said Miller was mistaken in her belief that she was defending a free press. He stressed that the government source she "alleges she is protecting" had already waived her promise of confidentiality. He said her source may have been providing information not to shed light on government secrets but to try to discredit an administration critic. "This is not a case of a whistle-blower" revealing secret information to Miller about "dangers at a nuclear power plant," Hogan said. "It's a case in which the information she was given and her potential use of it was a crime.... This is very different than a whistle-blower outing government misconduct." full WashingtonPost article here.
10 July 2005
George Washington on congressional consent for judicial nominations
via Think Progress "Just as the President has a right to nominate without assigning reasons, so has the Senate a right to dissent without giving theirs."
on whistleblowers and your right to know
via Romenesko the Cleveland Plain Dealer holds back 2 (apparently) important stories that are based on leaked documents, fearing the possibility of a fate similar to Miller and Cooper.
As I write this, two stories of profound importance languish in our hands. The public would be well served to know them, but both are based on documents leaked to us by people who would face deep trouble for having leaked them. Publishing the stories would almost certainly lead to a leak investigation and the ultimate choice: talk or go to jail. Because talking isn't an option and jail is too high a price to pay, these two stories will go untold for now. How many more are out there?
fear
Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack.Meanwhile, CNN offers up this:Do you believe another terrorist attack is likely on American soil?
I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an event is imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at the most. [link]
some things you can't "unsee"
From Dr. Johnson's Cat... a fun blog to check out on occasion. This time I kinda wish I hadn't...
On Plame and Rove
David Corn jumps the gun on Newsweek's expose tomorrow apparently 'nailing' Rove as Miller's source. Though this much we already knew. As for new information... ? Per Corn, Newsweek's piece will make the claim that "Rove--prior to the publication of the Bob Novak column that first publicly disclosed Valerie Wilson/Plame as a CIA official--told Cooper that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife apparently worked at the CIA and was involved in Joseph Wilson's now-controversial trip to Niger."
not a quagmire
Lt. Gen. John Vines, who oversees military operations in Iraq, says as long as ordinary Iraqis can be recruited for $150 to lay a roadside bomb, it does no good to count how many insurgents have been killed.
04 July 2005
Happy 4th of July
I'm backlogged like hell over here... been way too busy to blog for a few weeks. If you read nothing else today, then check out the annotated Declaration of Independence from Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged.
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