judy miller: impersonating a journalist.

* jay rosen on judy miller: "I do not consider her a neo-con because that would lend far too much coherence to her thought. About the only thing I know about her is she's incoherent. What she thinks does not match up with what she does, what she does is not revealed in what she says. I guess you could say she's a mystery-- but a political mystery, walking around like a person, impersonating a journalist." (link)

* judymiller has her letter to modo up on her blog. (go here then scroll) - i loved this (re the "Former Hill Staffer" attribution):

"Three, as I also told Calame, Scooter Libby has never been identified in any of my stories as anything other than a “senior Administration official,” and never would have been identified in print in one of my stories in any other way. I accepted the attribution for the sole purposes of listening to the information, not publishing it. While I was prepared to listen to what he had to say based on that attribution, I would have attempted to confirm the information he was providing through other sources, preferably on the record, or gone back to him to renegotiate a more appropriate attribution had I decided to write a story."

fucking brilliant. is she a total psychopath?