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Friday, October 21, 2005 12:00 AM

Times editor: Miller may have misled us, but we made mistakes, too

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  • Saturday, October 22, 2005 03:12 PM

    If only we'd known...

    Until Fitzgerald came after her, I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign....[b]ut if I had known the details of Judy's entanglement with Libby, I'd have been more careful in how the paper articulated its defense...

    Spare me. We're supposed to believe that all of Washington and half the Times' readership were suspicious of Miller's reporting--but Bill Keller had no idea there was anything to be concerned about?

    Please. This mea culpa reads like a cut and paste of all the Times' previous mea culpas. Or mea culpae--whatever. Hollow.

    The bottom line is that the Times printed all Miller's disinformation, then lept to her defense. Only now, after she buckled, are they forced to try to rationalize the whole thing.

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