Scoop! NY Times journalist Judy Miller went to jail for romantic reasons, not simply because she refused to reveal her sources

Judy Miller went to jail because she and Scooter Libby were lovers, and she wanted to protect the man who made her knees weak. That’s the gossip in Washington.

It seems you’re fair game for having your sexual history revealed -- but only if you’re the president, or serve in Congress.

So the secret of a Miller-Libby affair has been kept out of the media. I guess this stuff cannot be revealed in the MSM because no one wants to be sued for recounting plain gossip, which this is. But I’m an anonymous blogger, so here goes.

Judy Miller is the Pulitzer-winning journalist who bought the WMD lies of the Cheney/Chalabi cabal wholesale, and wrote them up in the NY Times, helping us to get into an unnecessary war. She recently went to jail because she didn’t want to reveal her source for an article she never wrote about the Plamegate CIA leak. For her 85 days in jail, Judy was lauded as a freedom-of-the-press heroine (though she’s been criticized by NY Times reporters like Maureen Dowd, and has now split with the NY Times after 28 years of service).

But freedom-of-the-press is not why Judy Miller went to jail. Apparently the one unspoken thing that made Judy Miller a star reporter was that she had relationships with some very powerful men, which made her privy to some great inside information. That’s what made her unique, and a powerful figure who enjoyed the trust of the higher-ups at the NY Times. They knew she got great stuff because it came from guys she bonked. Like once upon a time she was bonking the King of Jordan (not the present one, but his famous father). Judy Miller gives the notion of embedded reporter new meaning. There’s a lot you can learn from the King of Jordan if you’re resting side by side after an excellent bonk. And Judy looks to be as formidable a bonk as she is a reporter.

Was Judy Miller bonking Scooter Libby? Was that why she went to jail for so long, protecting her lover from an indictment, and only getting out after they had spoken by phone and he had given her his personal permission to out him to prosecutor Fitzgerald? Could that bizarre email about the turning leaves that Scooter wrote to Judy, be explained by the fact that they were lovers?

That’s the Washington gossip. Who knows, it might now fly around the blogosphere like a buzzard with a bad case of hemorrhoids, but remember, you read it here first. This is my first scoop -- even if it is, I hasten to add, only gossip. But hey, if Judy Miller went to jail out of love for Scooter Libby, my respect for her has just taken a turn for the better. Call me a sodden romantic, but in my book it’s way better to go to jail for love than for freedom of the press.