Conyers and Skelton Demand Info on Miller's Security Clearance
Reps. John Conyers and Ike Skelton, as ranking members of the Judiciary and Armed Services Committees, respectively, have written the following letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (now available here):
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We write about reports that journalists who were embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq were given security clearances. In her recounting of discussions with Scooter Libby, the Vice President's Chief of Staff, New York Times reporter Judith Miller, disclosed her belief that she had a security clearance. She specifically wrote, "[d]uring the Iraq war, the Pentagon had given me clearance to see secret information as part of my assignment 'embedded' with a special military unit hunting for unconventional weapons."1 She also noted she was not certain whether her clearance was in existence at the time she met with Mr. Libby.2
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