Embedded…Firmly in the Adminsitration’s Butt

I haven’t said much about the Times article about Miller–like you, I get my news from firedoglake and other fine sources–but I do want to highlight this gem from Greg Mitchell:

During the July 8, 2003, talk with Libby, he told her that Plame worked on weapons intelligence and arms control, and Miller allegedly took this to mean that she was not covert, but she didn’t really know one way or the other.

Revealing her working methods, perhaps too clearly, she writes that at this meeting, Libby wanted to modify their prior understanding that she would attribute information from him to an unnamed “senior administration official.” Now, in talking about Wilson, he requested that he be identified only as a “former Hill staffer.” This was obviously to deflect attention from the Cheney office’s effort to hurt Wilson. But Miller admits, “I agreed to the new ground rules because I knew that Mr. Libby had once worked on Capitol Hill.”

So Miller was willing to be actively misleading about her source’s identity, to help the White House’s smear campaign. That seems about right…