Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an
American journalist and writer. She is formerly of the New York Times
Washington bureau, where she became embroiled in controversy after her coverage
of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the
2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on faulty information,
particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced
Ahmed Chalabi. The New York Times later determined that a number of
stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. According to
commentator Ken Silverstein, Miller's Iraq reporting "effectively ended
her career as a respectable journalist." Miller acknowledged in The
Wall Street Journal on April 4, 2015 that some of her Times coverage was
inaccurate, although she had relied on sources she had used numerous times in
the past, including those who supplied information for her reporting that had
previously won a Pulitzer Prize. She further stated that policymakers and
intelligence analysts had relied on the same source as hers, and that at the
time there was broad consensus that Iraq had stockpiles of WMD.
Miller was later involved in the Plame
Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central
Intelligence Agency became widely known. When asked to name her sources, Miller
invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the CIA leak
and spent 85 days in jail protecting her source, Scooter Libby. Miller later
was forced to resign from her job at the New York Times in November 2005.
Later, she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a fellow at the
conservative Manhattan Institute. She is currently a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations.[6] On December 29, 2010, numerous media outlets reported
that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine
Newsmax.
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