And This Is Integrity?
by Big Dog on Oct 24, 2005 at 20:44 Political
My second journalistic sin in your eyes was agreeing to Libby’s request to be considered a “former Hill staffer†in his discussion about Wilson. As you acknowledged, I agreed to that attribution only to hear the information. As I also stressed, Scooter Libby has never been identified in any of my stories as anything other than a “senior Administration official.â€
It appears that Libby asked that he be referred to as a former Hill staffer. Miller admits that she only agreed to that so that he would tell her the information and then she referred to him as a senior Administration official. What she is saying is that she lied to him to get him to tell her something. She made a promise she had no intention of keeping. This is the kind of integrity that she has. If she were truly a person of integrity she would have kept her promise.
Let this be a lesson. Reporters will tell you anything to get a story. Once they have it they will screw you to a wall. Everything is on the record and once they have written the story you don’t have a prayer of being believed. I also think it is funny that she would be upset that they questioned her integrity and then use her lack of integrity as the basis for the argument. I am glad she went to jail. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if she stayed there.
Read it here.
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