{"id":14666,"date":"2015-04-30T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=14666"},"modified":"2015-05-01T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:34:41","slug":"jon-stewart-tears-apart-judith-millers-catastrophic-iraq-war-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=14666","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Tears Apart Judith Miller’s Catastrophic Iraq War Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOTN Editor’s Note:<\/strong>
\nJudith Miller shows her true colors in this highly revealing interview with Jon Stewart. \u00a0As a reporter for the New York Times, Ms. Miller was directly responsible for the pivotal NYT front page articles which literally lied the USA into the disastrous war of outright aggression against Iraq.<\/p>\n

Whether you like Jon Stewart’s kind of journalism or not, he completely lays bare the surreptitious techniques of the propaganda trade that are routinely used to start illicit wars. \u00a0Ms. Miller’s new book — THE STORY: A Reporter’s Journey<\/strong>\u00a0— is unveiled as a thoroughly cynical and fabricated account which deflected from the deliberate strategy utilized by the neocons to justify the unprovoked invasion and terrible destruction of the nation of Iraq.<\/p>\n

At the end of the interview one is left with the distinct impression that Judith Miller may really be one of those reporters who is, first and foremost, a paid full-time CIA agent. \u00a0It is well known now that the CIA controls, either directly or indirectly, every major network news anchor and serious reporter at the major newspapers of record. \u00a0Ms. Miller appears to fall into the category in which the ‘journalist’ is provided with a major national platform and is clearly a CIA agent first, news reporter second. \u00a0 Her ready and polished responses along with her sharp defensiveness are the mark of a very seasoned agent indeed.<\/p>\n

Millions of Iraqis died and many more were displaced as refugees during the fraudulent war in Iraq. Those who authorized it, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been identified as war criminals. \u00a0The amount of pain and suffering experienced by so many continues to this very day. \u00a0One wonders how a female journalist can justify, after zealously promoting such a horrible, one-sided massacre. \u00a0Point of fact: The Iraqis never threatened or wronged America in any way.<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart Grills Judith Miller On Iraq War Reporting<\/h1>\n

The Huffington Post | By Gabriel Arana<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think Judith Miller — the disgraced New York Times reporter who helped rally the country into a $2 trillion, 10-year war — would do us a favor and slink into obscurity. Alas, Miller is hawking a new book, and using the opportunity to try to salvage her reputation<\/a>. On Wednesday night, she stopped by “The Daily Show,”<\/a> where Jon Stewart gave her the sort of grilling she should be receiving on the mainstream news circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that you helped the administration take us to, like, the most devastating mistake in foreign policy that we\u2019ve made in, like, 100 years,\u201d Stewart began. \u201cBut you seem lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the adversarial interview, the former Times reporter shirked responsibility for her role in leading the country into war, saying that all journalists had been misled by the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Her sources in the intelligence community, Miller said, had always been right in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I wrote the book. I hoped that people like you would read it and determine that it was really, really hard to do this kind of reporting,\u201d said Miller, whose book, The Story: A Reporter\u2019s Journey<\/em>, was released earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t alone, I had lots and lots of company,” Miller added. \u201cThe intelligence sources we were talking to had never been wrong before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller denied that either Dick Cheney or George W. Bush were the sole sources for the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. \u201cThe information came from the men and women who had steered me right on Al Qaeda and 9\/11, who had told me that the former Soviet Union had a huge cache of biological weapons,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Among the highlights of the interview, Stewart cornered Miller over whether she had been used by the Bush administration to create a pretext for going to war:<\/p>\n

Miller<\/strong>: It took persuading, and they persuaded a lot of Democrats — Hillary Clinton, John Kerry. The intelligence was what it was.<\/p>\n

Stewart<\/strong>: Turns out, idiocy is bipartisan, but that\u2019s not exculpatory that it captured Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n

Miller<\/strong>: The intelligence was what it was. People like me didn\u2019t make it up.<\/p>\n

Stewart<\/strong>: No but the intelligence was not<\/em> what it was and not everyone got it wrong<\/p>\n

Miller<\/strong>: Almost everybody did \u2026<\/p>\n

Stewart<\/strong>: Somebody pointed the light at Iraq and that somebody is the White House and the Defense Department and [Donald] Rumsfeld. He said, right after 9\/11, \u201cfind me a pretext to go to war with Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Daily Show host later asked Miller point-blank whether she had been manipulated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll journalists are manipulated and all politicians lie — they all try and spin,\u201d Miller responded.<\/p>\n

Stewart rounded out the exchange by lamenting the finger-pointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese discussions always make me incredibly sad because they point to institutional failure at the highest levels and no one will take responsibility for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview (in two parts):<\/em><\/p>\n

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