Ward Harkavy at the Village Voice's Bush Beat blog took a shot at the NYT's Judith Miller (OK, the Voice kicking the NYT's ass is a bit reflexive, but this post raises some interesting questions).

An excerpt from the Oct. 11 post:

... We're still waiting for the Iraq debacle's most infamous reporter to get out of embed and touch all the bases for us by telling us exactly what she knows about Plamegate.

But in a bonehead play, she remains hidden in the Times newsroom.

Meanwhile, the paper's "public editor," Byron Calame, wrote a ludicrous puff piece on Sunday on what the Times editors think of their readers. Farhad Manjoo, in Salon's excellent War Room, says the paper's silence, meanwhile, about a more important topic — Judy Miller and what she knew and when she knew it — has cast a pall over the paper of broken record's newsroom.

Their readers, Calame intoned in his piece, are "curious" about life in general. Yes, yes, they're upscale, he added, but the main thing is that they're "curious." Calame wrote:

Who are you? The staff's descriptions ascribed characteristics to you and your fellow readers that were nearly all positive and praiseworthy — even boastful, in some cases.

Spare us the bullshit. Who the fuck are you? And where's the expected tell-all from Miller about her conversations with Karl Rove? The paper's micro-managing of the Judy Miller saga tells us all we need to know about what the paper thinks of its readers.

Now, what do the readers want? We want to know about Miller's role in Plamegate — my colleague Syd Schanberg, a former Times reporter/editor, for example, just called on her to "come clean." Speculation is rife, and it's getting rifer all the time.

We just found out on October 7, for example, that Miller suddenly found some new notes and turned them over to investigators. Adam Entous of Reuters wrote:

A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting early White House involvement before the outing of a CIA operative, legal sources said.

Times reporter Judith Miller discovered the notes — from a June 2003 conversation she had with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby — after her testimony before the grand jury last week, the sources said on Friday. She turned the notes over to federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and is expected to meet him again next Tuesday, the sources said.

Entous wrote that Miller's notes "could help Fitzgerald establish that Libby had started talking to reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, weeks before Wilson publicly criticized the administration's Iraq policy in a Times opinion piece."