Judy's Amorous? Entanglements? And the Editor Who Cried Wolfowitz

A must read from Ed and Pub:

As part of Judith Miller's departure from The New York Times today, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote and released a letter he had written to her clarifying his now-famous suggestion that she had an "entanglement" with I. Lewis Libby. She had complained that this word suggested a sexual relationship, and Keller finally admitted that this is not what he meant.

Keller's original statement probably was just a poor choice of words. Ultimately, the problem with the "entanglement" here had nothing to do with whether Scooter Libby was screwing Judy Miller, and everything to do with Scooter Libby and his boss using Judy Miller to screw America -- and her willingness to act as a one-note mouthpiece for a dishonest White House.

Please excuse me while I vomit at the concept of Judy and Scooter and Wolfowitz having a menage a trois acting out passages from Scooter's "bestial coupling" fiction.

What is it with ultra conservatives and the repressed total fucked-up shit they imagine?

Yet there's more to the Ed and Pub piece, and this is where Wolfie comes in:

And in that sense, Bill Keller has his own "entanglement" problem.Keller's entanglement was with Paul Wolfowitz, the then-deputy defense secretary and so-called "chief architect" of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Keller's apparently chummy relationship with Wolfowitz explains a lot. It certainly explains the convuluted pieces that Keller -- who was both a columnist and author of magazine pieces for the Times in 2002 and 2003, before he was called in to replace the ousted Howell Raines -- wrote offering his support for the military action before it was launched. He called himself a reluctant “hawk” on the war at that time