Did Rove, Rice, or Cheney Give Miller "Security Cl
Here's Miklaszewski's report:
Mon Oct 17, 2005 22:56
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The plot thickens once again! Tonight in a report by NBC news correspondant Jim Miklaszewski, it is learned that no one in the CIA or Pentagon gave Judith Miller security clearance while she was an embedded reporter in Iraq. Well...if the CIA didn't give it to her, and the Pentagon didn't - and Miller isn't lying once again (which is doubtful, as this lie would only make her look worse than she already does), then SOMEONE gave Miller clearance. And it had to be somebody pretty high up the political food chain, or they would be unable to grant such clearance. My guess is that it had to have been Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or Condy Rice. No one else would logically be able to grant such clearance.
Here's Miklaszewski's report:
WASHINGTON — Officials from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon say they have no idea what New York Times reporter Judith Miller was talking about when she claimed to have been given a "security clearance" while she was embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq in 2003.
In a first-person account of her recent testimony before a federal grand jury, published in the newspaper on Sunday, Miller wrote the Pentagon had given her "clearance to see secret information as part of my assignment 'embedded' with a special military unit hunting for unconventional weapons."
According to the officials, they know of no instance or circumstance when a reporter has been, or would be, granted a security clearance and believed she would not have been given one when she was embedded with the unit that was tasked with finding Iraqi WMDs immediately after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Meanwhile, Pentagon officials say they are continuing to check whether Miller had been granted a security clearance of any kind.
Normally it takes at least three months of background checks before anyone is granted a "secret” clearance.
There are cases where someone is granted a temporary short-term clearance — for a day, for example — but that is usually extended only to military, Department of Defense or civilian contractors who need to be cleared for specific information on a specific project.
The officials spoke to NBC on condition of anonymity
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9730308 /
Here's Miklaszewski's report:
WASHINGTON — Officials from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon say they have no idea what New York Times reporter Judith Miller was talking about when she claimed to have been given a "security clearance" while she was embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq in 2003.
In a first-person account of her recent testimony before a federal grand jury, published in the newspaper on Sunday, Miller wrote the Pentagon had given her "clearance to see secret information as part of my assignment 'embedded' with a special military unit hunting for unconventional weapons."
According to the officials, they know of no instance or circumstance when a reporter has been, or would be, granted a security clearance and believed she would not have been given one when she was embedded with the unit that was tasked with finding Iraqi WMDs immediately after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Meanwhile, Pentagon officials say they are continuing to check whether Miller had been granted a security clearance of any kind.
Normally it takes at least three months of background checks before anyone is granted a "secret” clearance.
There are cases where someone is granted a temporary short-term clearance — for a day, for example — but that is usually extended only to military, Department of Defense or civilian contractors who need to be cleared for specific information on a specific project.
The officials spoke to NBC on condition of anonymity
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9730308 /
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