She should have been fired long ago - but as Greg Miller points out, in light of her testimony and the coverage in this weekend's Times, she simply must go.
As to specifically damning and "huh?"-raising moments in her tale: Libby wanted to be called a former Hill staffer (that kind of mendacity is both appalling and, possibly, unprecedented)? She had a Secret clearance? The editors couldn't control what she worked on, even after she was specifically banned by them from covering Iraq and WMD issues?
I'm sure as I read more coverage of her story I'm going to find even more things to find troubling (and hopefully we'll all eventually be enlightened as to how she suddenly found that notebook), but all this is more than enough proof to establish that 1) she was happily being played by the administration and was enthusiastically spreading its extraordinarily manipulative spin, 2) she was flat-out telling lies to her bosses, and .... wow, well, if I hit all the points in those articles I'll be making a long list. So suffice to say, if the Times wants to maintain its credibility (or what it has left at the moment) she must be fired.
Posted by armand at October 16, 2005 09:04 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Media