Perhaps Ron will start reading the New York Times again now

Reporter at center of CIA leak retires

'I have become the White House Shill news,' Miller says in letter to New York Times

NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who went to jail for refusing to reveal her source during an investigation into the 2003 outing of a CIA operative, has retired from "the old gray lady," the newspaper announced Wednesday.

Her retirement takes effect immediately, according to the statement.

Personally, I think that the Times could have recovered a lot more credibility in White House reporting if they had refused her resignation letter and fired her with cause. But then again, there were various powers-that-be at the Times who were up to the tops of their hip waders in the Bush scandals, so I suppose they had to accept it - the only other alternative being to pretty much fire everyone in management and sell the paper to a new controlling interest. Given that the only likely buyer would be Rupert Murdoch, I suppose we can count ourselves lucky that it played out this way.

Goodnight, Sweet Judy blue eyes Kneepads. As you sail off into retirement to work on your fat, multi-million dollar book deal, I'm guessing you already know that you won't be missed. I suppose your lasting legacy, in the long view of the coming decades, will not be your fictional pro-Bush cheerleading reporting, but the fact that you very nearly managed to single handedly take down an establishment of the massive proportions of the New York Times.