There are two sides to every story. Judith Miller has created a website with her letter to the New York Times as well as a response to Maureen Dowd's column.

[hat tip Raw Story.] You can also read her letter here at the New York Times website. Jane at FiredogLake provides analysis.

Something I just noticed: The article at the Times website about Miller's departure from the paper is headlined, "Reporter Agrees to Leave Paper." That is a further slam to Miller in that it implies she was asked to leave and agreed. If the departure was her idea, wouldn't the headline simply read "Reporter Leaves Paper"? Kathryn Seelye who wrote the article may not have written the headline, but still, shouldn't someone have noticed this? I bet Judith Miller will.

by TChris

Judith Miller and the NY Times have reached a severance agreement that ends Miller's checkered career at the Times.

Under the agreement, Ms. Miller will retire from the newspaper, and The Times will print a letter she wrote to the editor explaining her position. Ms. Miller originally demanded that she be able to write an essay for the paper's Op-Ed page refuting the allegations against her, the lawyers said. The Times refused that demand - Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, said, "We don't use the Op-Ed page for back and forth between one part of the paper and another" - but agreed to let her to write the letter.

Miller's farewell letter will appear in tomorrow's Times -- although not in the funny pages, where it will likely belong.

Update: Big thanks to Matt, Mike Ditto and Big Tex and Ron. I have it now.

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There's a picture here(number ten in the series) that I can't figure out how to copy because it's in a macromedia flash series. Does anyone know how to copy it? You'll understand when you see it. If you figure it out, I'd really like to have a copy.

Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price is opening next week with free screenings across the country. Here are the details:

Next week, Robert Greenwald's latest documentary film WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price will premiere at an astonishing 6,000+ homes, churches, family businesses, schools, living rooms, community centers, and parking lots across the country -- a true people's premiere.

You are invited to join tens of thousands of people for this unprecedented event. The movie exposes the truth about Wal-Mart and questions the corporation's impact on the American economy. The people's premiere will reveal the growing public concern over Wal-Mart, and the growing inequality in America.

In related Wal-Mart news, a federal search warrant unsealed in a case against Wal-Mart alleges that two senior Wal-Mart execs knew the company's contractors were hiring undocumented workers.

Jane at Firedoglake finds this conversation about Patrick Fitzgerald between defense attorney Lynne Stewart, her client Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and their translator, Mohammed Yousry, in the New Yorker. Bottom line: Fitzgerald is a crusader - a true believer.

Then Jane moves to Wonkette's coverage of a luncheon to begin the hype for Time Magazine's Person of the Year before she notes it's probably not too early to start buzzing about Fitzgerald being crowned.

Here's more on the later career ascent of the prosecutors involved in the 1993 World Trade Center case.

I'm with Atrios on this one. I like Jennifer Aniston. This afternoon while channel surfing I ended up watching Along Came Polly for the second time. She seems like a real person. Anyway, here's why I'm writing about her.

An interview in this week's Newsweek asks her to list the seven things she'd rather talk about than men. Number 6:

The state of the world. How about that indictment?! And why did it take so long to respond to the crisis in New Orleans? Everything is imploding. It all seems to lead back to our dear president.

The Sunday Morning Lineups

• CNN's Late Edition looks like the one to watch.

• Meet the Press has Senators Kennedy and Coburn. It's airing an hour early on the East Coast only due to the New York marathon.
• ABC's This Week has Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel.
• Face the Nation has Dick Durbin, Pat Roberts and Orrin Hatch.
• Fox News Sunday has Senators Schumer and McCain.

[comments reopened, but please stay on topic of the Sunday news show.]

As TChris reported earlier, Kenneth Tomlinson was forced out of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The New York Times now reports he is the subject of an investigation into the misuse of funds. Another area of the inquiry involves whether he used phantom or unqualified employees.

People involved in the inquiry said that investigators had already interviewed a significant number of officials at the agency and that, if the accusations were substantiated, they could involve criminal violations.

by TChris

Kenneth Tomlinson, the former head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is among the right wingers who can’t stomach the possibility that liberal (or even moderate) ideas might be publicly voiced. The Inspector General of the CPB investigated Tomlinson’s use of corporate funds to promote conservative programming on public television, and its report is in the hands of CPB's board.

[The investigation] included Mr. Tomlinson's decision to hire a researcher to monitor the political leanings of guests on the public policy program "Now" with Bill Moyers; his use of a White House official to set up an ombudsman's office to scrutinize programs for political balance; and secret payments approved by Mr. Tomlinson to two Republican lobbyists.

The results of the IG’s report are confidential, but they persuaded the other members of CPB’s board, on which Tomlinson continued to sit, to force his resignation.

In a split decision, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a panel's ruling that four reporters must give up their sources in nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee's civil suit against the Government.

Lee is seeking the identity of the sources for his lawsuit against the departments of Energy and Justice. He alleges the agencies gave reporters private information about him and suggested he was a suspect in the investigation into possible theft of nuclear secrets.

Judge Tatel, who wrote 41 page opinion (pdf) in the Judith Miller - Matthew Cooper case in which he said that he believes a journalist privilege should exist in some cirumstances, would have granted a hearing in Wen Ho Lee's case.

CNN announced yesterday that Aaron Brown is leaving and Anderson Cooper will be taking his 10:00 PM ET timeslot. I like Anderson Cooper's reporting a lot, but I also liked Aaron Brown's show. He was an oasis of calm and reason among the sea of frenetic spin shows.

Armando likes him too. It doesn't appear that Mr. Brown has lined up a new gig yet, but I wish him well.

Steve Clemons of the Washington Note reports:

There will be (also TONIGHT) a devastating critique of Vice President Cheney and his key staff regarding the Plame Affair and the decision to invade Iraq tonight on Chris Matthews' Hardball. TWN has learned that David Shuster has a hard-charging report tonight that will set the VP's office on edge and add a lot to our understanding of Cheney's role.

David Schuster's reporting has been really top-notch on PlameGate. Tune in, if you can.

Update: There was no hard charging report by Schuster. He said nothing new. A big disappointment.