Miller, Cooper, the Supremes, and Journalism

Yesterday, the Supremes chose not to involve themselves in the court case that threatens to jail Judith ("There are WMDS everywhere and Ahmed Chalabi told me so!") Miller of The Times and Matt Cooper related to the Valerie Plame outing.

Since then, much has been blogged about what it means, as well as whether - in our delight to see Miller, whose Iraq War reporting was so devastatingly spun to the Bushies - we're letting our dislike of Miller cloud our views.

I see Miller and Cooper as an anamoly and almost tangential. Miller certainly learned nothing from giving her heartfelt loyalty to the Bushies by lying to the American public only to watch the Bushies hang her out to dry over failing to reveal her Bush White House source on Plame. And if there was justice, Bob Novak would be sitting in prison right now along with whatever White House operative - hi Karl Rove! - leaked the details to him so he could print it in July 2003.

We can stand behind good journalism without supporting Miller.