By: E&P Staff New York Times Public Editor Byron Calame announced Thursday on his
Web journal at the newpaper's site that he will, indeed, write a review of the paper's long-delayed account of the Judith Miller case.
It comes one day after a judge lifted the contempt order against the Times reporter after her latest day of testimony in the Plame case. Just before that on Wednesday he had told E&P's Joe Strupp that he wasn't sure that he would write anything.
On Thursday he also revealed that he had been "asking some basic questions of the key players" at the paper since July, to no avail. Calame added that he expects to talk to Miller, Executive Editor Bill Keller, and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., in looking into the affair.
"While a multitude of issues need to be addressed," Calame wrote, "I certainly will expect The Times?s explanation to address these fundamental questions that I first posed to the key players at the paper in July: Was Ms. Miller?s contact with the source she is protecting initiated and conducted in genuine pursuit of a news article for Times readers? Why didn?t she write an article? What kinds of notes are there and who has them? Why wasn?t she exploring a voluntary waiver from the source?
"An important and obvious issue that has arisen in recent days, of course, is Ms. Miller?s seemingly belated discovery of notes from a June 2003 conversation that she had with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney?s chief of staff. Several hours after she testified before the grand jury yesterday about the notes, a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., lifted the contempt finding that had caused her to spend 85 days in jail."
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