More Miller

Just watch the pea and thimble trickery here. Honest spooks at the CIA; information leaked/not leaked to a journalist willing to go to prison rather than tell who did not give her the scoop.
What is really interesting is that the US media and blogs have just caught on to the presence of journalists with ‘classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq’ during the initial assaults.
These reports were bigger than the war story itself in the press of other countries. Reporting on the compromised US media was a major angle. How on earth did that little gem eventually leak out to the US media?
In its breathless report; Judith Miller: The 'Classified' Angle, the Editor Publisher says:
“One must assume that Ms. Miller was required to sign a standard and legally binding agreement that she would never divulge classified information to which she became privy, without risk of criminal prosecution.”
Sorry E&P, one must assume that all embedded journalists were required to sign such documents.
The question of why Miller would assist the Bush Administration, as a supposedly ethical journalist, to execute their war on the dissemination of honest information, still remains.
The world is well versed in the peculiarities of politically partisan media. For the most part this is a transparent process which many real journalists, not the specially selected opinion writers, will always seek to subvert. In places other than the US, that is.
It is nonsense to think that the media, individuals and corporations, did not understand the rules of close involvement in the Iraq War coverage.
Reporters were not rejected on whim or selected at random. The embedded reporting team played by the rules, the others simply didn’t get to play.
The real scandal is that this situation was denied or ignored at the time and that those relying on US news sources were fed on officially cleansed bullshit. But then, perhaps that was nothing more than responding to the public expectation which has be moulded by this kind of misinformation.