NYTimes Promises Thorough Telling of Judy Miller Treason Saga

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a memo to the his newspeople sent out last night, has given assurances that The Times will indeed tell the full story of Judith Miller and her involvement in the Plame TraitorGate Scandal:

Judy met this afternoon with the special counsel to hand over additional notes and answer questions. She is to return to the grand jury Wednesday to supplement her earlier testimony. We'll be reporting this in the paper, of course. It means that for a couple more days she remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of legal jeopardy.

As we've told readers, once her obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation. It's a complicated story involving a large cast, and it has required a meticulous reporting effort -- in part to chase down and debunk some of the myths kicked up by the rumor mill.

Maybe this time we'll get a real apology from that outfit for (1) the decision to act like cheerleaders instead of reporters during the run-up to the Iraq Catastrophe, and (2) the decision to appoint Judith Miller as the head cheerleader.

Of course, the story on which I would like to see the The Times scoop everyone else is the firing of Miller. I would assume that even the incredibly lame people running the show at the New York Times would know about such an event before anyone else.