Daily Kos: Grand Moff Texan on Judith Miller

I wonder how much of this is true.--Dictynna

Judith Miller: 3 Decades of Disinformation

by Grand Moff Texan

Fri Jul 8th, 2005 at 13:00:32 PDT

The scenario sounds somehow familiar: in support of a somewhat loopy Republican president's campaign against an Arab dictator, Judith Miller was willing to plant official US disinformation in the New York Times.

The year was 1986.

• Diaries ::Grand Moff Texan's diary :: ::

Nine years into her tenure at the New York Times, she participated in John Poindexter's disinformation campaign against Libya for the Reagan administration. As Bob Woodward later revealed in the Washington Post, Miller planted Poindexter's propaganda in her own writings:
claiming that el-Khadaffi was being betrayed from within his own country, that he had sunk into depression, and that he had turned to drugs. Miller went on to claim Khadaffi had tried to have sex with her, but lost interest when she claimed Jewish heritage.