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The Last Ever Judy Post

Here at Hog, I just can't stop returning to the Judy trough. I know, I know, we have the first new fed chairmen since 1943, but I can't look away. Forgive me!

Item One: From within the Times comes the most wicked right cross yet: from Maureen Dowd.

Item Two: Howard Kurtz has a round-up of the response to the Times' recent reporting.

But by far the most interesting tidbit--item three--comes from Judy herself, this time an email to Byron Calame, the Public Editor:

"While you posted Bill Keller’s sanitized, post-lawyered version of the ugly, inaccurate memo to the staff he circulated Friday, which accused me of “misleading” an editor and being “entangled” with I. Lewis Libby, you declined to post the answers I sent you to six questions that we touched on during our interview Thursday. Had you done so, readers could have made their own assessment of my conduct in what you headlined as 'the Miller mess.'"

It is WELL worth the read to hear "Ms. Run Amok" describe her process of assiduous reporting. Another fascinating tidbit: Judy bites the hand that defended her, drawing them in to the web of complicity (and rather damagingly at that):

I fail to see why I am responsible for my editors’ alleged failure to do some “digging” into my confidential sources and the notebooks. From the start, the legal team that the Times provided me knew who my source was and had access to my notes. I never refused to answer questions or provide any information they requested. No one indicated they had doubts about the stand I took to go to jail.

See, how could I have failed to blog that?