Judith Miller, Secret-Keeper Extraordinare
A Hilarious Miller Was 'All Smiles' Over Harry Potter Leak

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Did you know Judith Miller was extremely funny and self-referential? We absolutely did not! Which is why were amused, gratified, intrigued and maybe even a little bit taken aback by her performance on yesterday's Fox and Friends, which—as you may or may not know—just happens to be our most favorite tv show.

NEW YORK Judith Miller, the former New York Times reporter who is something of an expert on leaks, was asked today on the Fox News show "Fox and Friends" about the burning issue of the day: Who leaked the pages from the new Harry Potter book and does she defend the leaker?

Miller said she didn't think the leaker giving away the ending of the book was the right thing to do but added, chuckling, "I would defend to the death his right to do it."

"So what does happen in this Harry Potter book?" she was asked. "I don't know," Miller said, laughing, fairly certain she would avoid jail in this case.

"I know you can keep a secret," one host noted.

Which is so funny, really, because who knows about leaks better than ex-con/former Times reporter Judith Miller?

Also, who could have predicted that spending 85 days in jail because you refuse to testify against Scooter Libby, then going ahead and testifying anyway—hence kind of nullifying the whole "jail" thing—and then sort-of (but not really!) alluding to it a mere two years later, in the context of an early-morning talk show you undoubtedly don't watch, in reference to an inexplicably popular children's book series you undoubtedly haven't read, would prove to be such PURE COMEDY GOLD??

Jul 19, 2007 · Link · 6 Responses
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    No. 2 Hollywood Bedroom » Blog Archive » Harry Potter and Publishing’s Deathly Hallows says:

    [...] Judith Miller has shown she's on board with breaking the Harry Potter embargo, one other saucy brunette is piping up [...]

    Posted: Jul 19, 2007 at 11:53 am
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    [...] the former journalist-slash-jailbird shows she has a sense of humor with a lighthearted appearance on a right-leaning morning tv show, and now comes word that—in [...]

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    [...] Judith Miller has shown she’s on board with breaking the Harry Potter embargo, one other saucy brunette is piping up [...]

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