Once again, Tuesday’s New York Times has nothing to say on Novak-Plame-gate (the "Cheney Aide" story on that page is from Monday, and has no new info), on a day when the Washington Post reports new details on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s intense interest in Dick Cheney’s office – including Cheney himself – along with his announcement that he will announce results of his investigation in Washington rather than his home base of Chicago, and unconfirmed rumors that he will do so within days. And Raw Story reports that the NY Daily News is set to claim that a senior White House official has flipped and is cooperating with Fitzgerald [UPDATE: the NY Daily News story is here, and Raw Story as usual was right. There is speculation that the cooperating witness is former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer – we’ll see.]. But, too bad, guess the NYT couldn’t find anyone to talk to them.
Meanwhile, Bill Keller, the NYT’s executive editor who apparently decided that it would be a good idea to let a reporter he removed from WMD issues "drift" back into covering national security and to call all the shots with respect to how the entire affair of her refusal to testify was managed, has decamped to Asia for two weeks, meaning that he will be far, far away when Patrick Fitzgerald announces the results of this case. And the NYT’s editorial page, which disgracefully shilled for Judy Miller, peddling misleading argument after misleading argument about why she was right not to testify and shouldn’t have been in jail (most of which have been demolished by the NYT’s recent articles or other developments in the case) has been utterly silent since Sunday’s articles came out. How can they possibly have nothing to say on this?
One has to wonder how long it will be before every NYT reporter who is not Judy Miller gets sick of working for a once-great paper that seems to have completely lost its way and starts looking for other work.
