Valerie Plame Responds to ‘Pathetic and Self-Serving’ Judith Miller

Ex-New York Times reporter and current Fox News contributor Judith Miller wrote a recent essay for The Wall Street Journal taking responsibility for misreporting facts about Iraq in the run-up to war. She even wrote, “I took America to war in Iraq. It was all me.”

But she did this to shoot down any suggestion that the Bush administration was engaged in any kind of misinformation campaign or that they fed her intentionally false information.

Well, Valerie Plame––whose identity as a CIA covert agent was outed by members of the administration––fired back on Facebook last night:

Dear Judy,

No one is crediting you with starting the Iraq war. We know you were not actually on the team that took us into the biggest, most tragic US foreign policy debacle ever. You were just cheering from the sidelines. Your attempt to re-write history is both pathetic and self-serving.

Sincerely,
Valerie Plame

Miller, you may recall, was one of the major figures in the scandal over Plame’s outing, and ended up going to prison for months to protect the identity of her source, Scooter Libby.

[h/t Mashable]
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