TUESDAY LETTERS: More on Miller

By: E&P STaff A sampling of letters for Tuesday, October 4. Please send letters to E&P at letters@editorandpublisher.com. We reserve the right to shorten and edit. Thank you for your views.

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Re: the latest in the Judith Miller case.

Please tell her, WELL DONE.

Robert F. Ploetz
Rice Lake WI
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I can't believe after all she has done, Judy Miller still works at the NYT. She violated several federal felony statutes, every canon of journalistic ethics, badly damaged the reputation of her employer, and betrayed her country by knowingly acting as an integral part of a scheme to deceive Congress and plunge the U.S into an illegal war.

And, yet, Miller is still on the Times payroll. If I were Fitzgerald, I'd go after her editors and the Times publisher as co-conspirators. As a real fan of the First Amendment, I have to say, Judy and the Times management have even managed to erode the Freedom of the Press.

Mark G. Levey
Alexandria, VA
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Lots of questions, very few answers. Did Libby "leak" to Miller or did Miller present Libby with a fait accomplice - telling Libby that she knew Plame worked for the CIA? Without being privy to Miller's grand jury testimony, how would one know?

Here's what I'd like to know: BEFORE Novak wrote his column "outing" Wilson's wife, how widespread was the knowledge of Plame's employment status within the upper echelons of the Washington/Manhattan press corps and cocktail party circle?

Bill Barker
Harriman, NY
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Frustrated by pollsters' refusals to poll on the public's support for impeaching Bush, on Friday afternoon we put out a request for contributions in order to purchase questions that pollsters would not otherwise be asking. We brought in over $5,000 over the weekend. We're aiming for $10,000. We'll spend it all on questions related to impeachment.

David Swanson
After Downing Street

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