Judy Miller: Bloggers on the Story

Here are the latest posts from the blogosphere on Judy Miller's unfolding involvement in Plamegate:

Josh Marshall delves deeper into a prior run-in between Fitzgerald and Miller. It was early in Bush’s first term, when Miller was one of two Times reporters who, acting on another White House leak, ended up tipping off a trio of Islamic charities that were under investigation for ties to terrorism, giving them time to destroy evidence, and earning the wrath of Fitzgerald, who was in charge of the case.

Looking forward, James Wolcott writes that "years of resentment and frustration over Judith Miller's untouchable diva status and inside gamesmanship are producing major payback."

Meanwhile, rosedog (filling in for Marc Cooper on his blog) takes a look at "the journalistic scandal that undergirds" Plamegate -- "namely the unholy deals that Washington reporters make in order to receive leaked information from high level government sources."

Romenesko points out a PR Week item in which Mark Corrallo is quoted as saying Judith Miller "was about to be fired. She should be sending Pat Fitzgerald a dozen roses and a thank-you note right now because he just made her untouchable. She's unfirable. He basically just saved her career."

Also working the inside-the-Times angle, Left Coaster ponders whether "Bill Keller and the Times' editorial board will allow the paper's credibility to go down with Miller."

And Jeralyn at Talk Left argues that it doesn’t have to be either/or, saying that while Miller had “unusually strong sources in the Pentagon” and “who else but Judith Miller would [these sources] have leaked to?” this does not preclude Rove and Libby getting the information from other sources as well.