Judy at arm's length

Steak dinners and martinis aside, the New York Times is clearly off the Judith Miller bandwagon. Bill Keller distanced himself from her in Friday’s memo to staff, Maureen Dowd weighed in with a stinging throwdown of an editorial (“Woman of Mass Destruction?” — honestly, she didn’t even need to write anything else) and Barney Calame chimed in yesterday with his anticipated rebuke of the Times’ handling of the case and equally anticipated disavowal of Judith Miller and all she hath wrought (note: the Calame piece is non-TimesSelect but it’s an additional mark against Timesian transparency that clutch columns on the topic by Dowd and Rich