Judith Miller

Judith P. Miller (born January 2, 1948), is an American journalist. She announced her retirement from The New York Times on November 9, 2005. Miller, based in Washington D.C., was a prominent reporter who had access to top U.S. government officials. Her coverage of these government officials made her a controversial figure. In particular, her involvement in the Plame Affair and her reporting on the Bush Administration’s conclusions about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Program made her a conspicuous media personality. Image File history File links Judith_Miller. ... Image File history File links Judith_Miller. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of living beings. ...

In July of 2005, Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent. Miller did not write about Plame, but is reportedly in possession of evidence relevant to the leak investigation. According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official — later revealed to be "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff—on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for "twisting" intelligence to justify war in Iraq. (Plame's CIA identity was revealed in a column by conservative political commentator Robert Novak on July 14, 2003.) Contempt of court is a court ruling which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, deems an individual as holding contempt for the court, its process, and its invested powers. ... A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, which determines if there is enough evidence for a trial. ... A leak in political and news circles is a release to the public of secret or confidential information without official authorisation, and without acknowledgement of the source of the leak. ... Joseph and Valerie Wilson Valerie E. Wilson, née Valerie Elise Plame, (born April 19, 1963 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former United States CIA officer who once held non-official cover (NOC) status. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Lewis Scooter Libby I. Lewis Scooter Libby Jr. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For more detail about the political scandal, see Plame affair. ... An Op-Ed is a piece of writing expressing an opinion. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative political commentator and political figure. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On July 16, 2005, The Washington Post reported that Miller could face criminal contempt charges, which could have extended her jail time well beyond the four months then anticipated. The maximum sentence for criminal contempt is life imprisonment.^[1] The Post also suggested that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was particularly interested in hearing Miller's version of her encounter with Libby. While Libby signed a waiver allowing journalists to testify about their conversations on this subject, Miller had reportedly refused to accept its validity on the grounds that it was "coerced." July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American attorney and the current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. ...

Filings by Patrick Fitzgerald refer to Miller's defiance of the court as a "crime."^[2] Some have speculated that Judith Miller may have already known about Valerie Plame before speaking with Libby on July 8, 2003—and thus instead of protecting Libby she was protecting herself or others. July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On September 29, 2005, after spending 85 days in jail, Miller was released after a telephone call with Lewis Libby. He had reaffirmed a release of confidentiality that he had given her a year earlier and that she had already known about. Under oath, Miller was questioned by Patrick Fitzgerald before a federal grand jury the following day, September 30th, 2005^[3] but was not relieved of contempt until after testifying again on October 12, 2005. For her second grand jury appearance, Miller produced a notebook from a previously-undisclosed meeting with Libby on June 23, 2003, several weeks before Wilson's New York Times editorial was published. According to Miller's notes from that earlier meeting, Libby disclosed that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA employee involved in her husband's trip to Niger. Miller's notebook from her July 8, 2003 meeting with Libby contains the name "Valerie Flame [sic]".^[4] This reference occurred six days before Novak published Plame's name and unmasked her as a CIA "operative." September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewis Scooter Libby I. Lewis Scooter Libby Jr. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

The New York Times published Miller's first-person account, "My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room," on October 16, 2005. After having invoked First Amendment journalistic principles in going to jail, Miller was widely derided for saying that she could not remember who gave her the name "Valerie Flame" (presumably a key fact in the case) but that she was sure it didn't come from Libby.^[5] (Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified, for example, that he was told Plame's name and CIA identity by Libby at lunch on July 7th, 2003, one day before Libby's breakfast meeting with Miller.)^[6]) Miller's grand jury account was her last article in the New York Times, which negotiated a private severance package shortly afterwards. Miller is expected to be a witness at the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, which began in January 2007.^[7] Ari Fleischer conducts a White House press conference Lawrence Ari Fleischer (born October 13, 1960) was the press secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush from January 2001 to July 2003. ...

Background

Born in New York City to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother, Judith Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Hollywood High School. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Irish Catholics are persons of predominantly Irish descent who adhere to the Roman Catholic faith. ... Miami redirects here. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1290. ... Hollywood High School mural. ...

Her father, Bill Miller, was a Las Vegas entertainment icon. She attended Ohio State University where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and she graduated from Barnard College in 1969 and received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 1971, while at Princeton, Miller traveled to Jerusalem to research a paper. She became fascinated with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and spent the rest of the summer traveling for the first time to Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Ohio. ... Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ) is an international womens fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. ... Barnard College, Columbia University, founded in 1889, is an independent college of liberal arts and sciences as well as a womens college, located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in New York, United States. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... Robertson Hall, which houses the Woodrow Wilson School. ... Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Yerushalayim) (Standard) Yerushalayim or Yerushalaim Arabic commonly القـُدْس (Al-Quds); officially in Israel أورشليم القدس (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Name Meaning Hebrew: (see below), Arabic: The Holiness Government City District Jerusalem Population 724,000 (2006) Jurisdiction 123,000 dunams (123 km²) Mayor Uri Lupolianski Web Address www. ... Israel and the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...

As a correspondent for The Progressive and National Public Radio, she turned her academic interest into a professional one, traveling to the region and cultivating a network of highly placed sources. The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced left-of-center perspective. ... Offical NPR logo National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the United States. ...

She was married in 1993 to Jason Epstein. Jason Epstein is a key figure in the popularisation of the trade paperback. ...

New York Times Career: 1977-2002

Miller started at the Washington bureau of the New York Times in 1977, part of a new breed of hungry young hires, prodded in part by the sting of the Times losing the Watergate story to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post. She and her boyfriend Steven Rattner, also a Times reporter, became close friends of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the son of the then-publisher of the Times, whose first job at the Times, starting in 1978, was also as a reporter of the Washington bureau. For several summers, Miller and Rattner shared a weekend house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with Sulzberger and his wife, Gail. (Sulzberger would become publisher of the Times in 1992 in his own right.) The Watergate building. ... Bob Woodward Robert Upshur Bob Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. ... Carl Bernstein (left) and Bob Woodward (right)This image is pending deletion. ... ... Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... The Eastern Shore of Maryland is composed of the states nine counties east of Chesapeake Bay. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,417 sq mi (32,160 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33...

In 1983, the Times put her Middle East experience to use by installing her as its Cairo bureau chief, the first woman in that position. The bureau was responsible for covering the Arab world, allowing her to range from Tripoli to Damascus. Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population (2005)  - City 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST... Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس Tarābulus) is the capital city of Libya. ... Damascus at sunset Damascus ( translit: Also commonly: الشام ash-Shām) is the largest city of Syria and is also the capital. ...

In 1987-88, she returned to Washington as the Washington bureau's news editor and deputy bureau chief. In October 1990, Miller was named special correspondent to the Persian Gulf crisis, and after that, the Times' Sunday Magazine's special correspondent. It has been suggested that Persian Gulf States be merged into this article or section. ...

In the mid-1990s, she was the Times's deputy media editor.

In early 2002, Miller shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, awarded to the New York Times staff for their work profiling "the global terrorism network and the threats it posed." The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...

Anthrax hoax victim

On October 12, 2001, Judith Miller opened an anthrax hoax letter mailed to her New York Times office. The 2001 anthrax attacks had begun occurring in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with anthrax-laced letters sent to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and the New York Post, all in New York City, as well as the National Enquirer in Boca Raton, Florida. Two additional letters (with a higher grade of anthrax) were sent on October 9, 2001 to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy in Washington. Twenty-two people were sickened; five died. The crime has never been solved. REDIRECT[Anthrax hoaxes] ... The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its FBI case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001 (a week after the September 11, 2001 attacks). ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... ABC News logo ABC News is a division of ABC television and radio networks (ABC), owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports. ... NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The National Enquirer is a national American supermarket tabloid. ... Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947), known as Tom Daschle, was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota and the Senate Majority Leader. ... Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. ...

Miller was the only major U.S. media reporter, and the New York Times the only major U.S. media organization, to be victimized by a fake anthrax letter in the fall of 2001. Miller had reported extensively on the subject of biological threats and had recently co-authored a book on bio-terrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, which had been published on October 2, 2001. Miller also co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits," published in the New York Times on September 4, 2001, weeks before the first anthrax mailings.

New York Times career: 2002-2005

Miller has come under criticism for her reporting on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). On September 7, 2002, Miller and Times reporter Michael R. Gordon reported the interception of metal tubes bound for Iraq. Her front page story quoted unnamed "American officials" and "American intelligence experts" who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited unnamed "Bush administration officials" who claimed that in recent months, Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb."^[8] Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of living beings. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for the New York Times. ...

Miller added that "Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war." Although Miller conceded that some intelligence experts found the information on Iraq's weapons programs "spotty," she did not report specific and detailed objections, including a report filed with the US government more than a year before Miller's article appeared by retired Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist, Houston G. Wood III, who concluded that the tubes were not meant for centrifuges. A combination of federal, state and private funds is providing $300 million for the construction of 13 facilities on ORNLs new main campus. ...

Shortly after Miller's article was published, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld all appeared on television and pointed to Miller's story as a partial basis for going to war. Subsequent analyses by various agencies all concluded that there was no way the tubes could have been used for uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. ... General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld, (born July 9, 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975–1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001–2006. ...

Miller would later claim, based only on second-hand statements from the military unit she was embedded with, that WMDs had been found in Iraq.^[9] This again was widely repeated in the press. "Well, I think they found something more than a smoking gun," Miller said on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. "What they've found is a silver bullet in the form of a person, an Iraqi individual, a scientist, as we've called him, who really worked on the programs, who knows them, firsthand, and who has led MET Alpha people to some pretty startling conclusions." This story also turned out to be false.^[10] The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on PBS in the United States. ...

On May 26, 2004, a week after the U.S. government apparently severed ties with Ahmed Chalabi, a Times editorial acknowledged that some of that newspaper's coverage in the run-up to the war had relied too heavily on Chalabi and other Iraqi exiles bent on regime change. It also regretted that "information that was controversial [was] allowed to stand unchallenged."^[11] While the editorial rejected "blame on individual reporters," others noted that ten of the twelve flawed stories discussed had been written or co-written by Miller.^[12] May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ahmed Chalabi Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,1 (Arabic: احمد الجلبي) (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq[1] in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. ...

Miller has reacted angrily to criticism of her pre-war reporting. In a May 27, 2004 article in Salon, published the day after the Times mea culpa, James C. Moore quoted her: "You know what," she offered angrily. "I was proved fucking right. That's what happened. People who disagreed with me were saying, 'There she goes again.' But I was proved fucking right." This quotation was originally in relation to another Miller story, wherein she indicated that trailers found in Iraq had been proven to be mobile weapons labs. That too was later shown to be untrue. ^[13] The announcement may not have been voluntary - her journalism had come under intense criticism with accusations that she had been made into a shill of the Bush administration. This criticism generally followed the line that her reporting of cherry-picked intelligence favorable to the administration's pro-war positions prior to the Iraq war reflected an uncomfortable "entanglement" with administration officials. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mea Culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as my fault, or my own fault. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Cherry picking, literally meaning harvesting cherries, is used metaphorically to accuse someone of pointing at individual cases which seem to confirm his or her position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases that may contradict it. ...

Post-The New York Times

Since leaving the New York Times, Ms. Miller has continued her work as a writer in Manhattan and has contributed several op-ed pieces to The Wall Street Journal. On May 16, 2006 she summarized her investigations on U.S. foreign policy regarding Libya's dismantling of its weapons programs in an essay spanning two days. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with a worldwide average daily circulation of more than 2. ...

On May 17, 2006, NavySEALs.com and MediaChannel.org posted/published an exclusive interview with Ms. Miller in which Miller tells the details of how the attack on the Cole spurred her reporting on Al Qaeda and led her, in July 2001, to a still-anonymous top-level White House source, who shared top-secret NSA signals intelligence (SIGINT) concerning an even bigger impending Al Qaeda attack, perhaps to be visited on the continental United States. Ultimately, however, Miller never wrote that story either. But two months later – on September 11 – Miller and her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, another Pulitzer Prize winner, both remembered and regretted the story they “didn’t do.”

Contempt of court

See CIA leak grand jury investigation and Plame affair timeline for more information.

Floyd Abrams represented Miller

On October 1, 2004, federal Judge Thomas F. Hogan found Miller in contempt of court for refusing to appear before a federal grand jury, which was investigating who had leaked to reporters the fact that Valerie Plame was a covert CIA operative. Miller did not write an article about the subject at the time of the leak, but others did (most notably, Robert Novak), spurring the investigation. Judge Hogan sentenced her to 18 months in jail, but stayed the sentence while her appeal proceeded. On February 15, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld Judge Hogan's ruling. On June 27, 2005 the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA leak grand jury investigation (rel. ... The Plame affair (rel. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1903x1671, 599 KB) The author of this image is me, David Shankbone. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1903x1671, 599 KB) The author of this image is me, David Shankbone. ... Floyd Abrams is a famous First Amendment lawyer. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Contempt of court is a court ruling which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, deems an individual as holding contempt for the court, its process, and its invested powers. ... Joseph and Valerie Wilson Valerie E. Wilson, née Valerie Elise Plame, (born April 19, 1963 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former United States CIA officer who once held non-official cover (NOC) status. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative political commentator and political figure. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

According to sources reported to have firsthand knowledge Karl Rove had asserted in an interview with the FBI that he had learned the identity of Plame from a reporter. Karl Rove Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. ...

On July 6, Judge Hogan ordered Miller to serve her sentence at "a suitable jail within the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia." She was taken to Alexandria City Jail on July 7, 2005.^[14][15] July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... A prison in Alexandria, Virginia, the Alexandria City Jail has housed several prominent prisoners. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Prior to her jailing for civil contempt, Miller's lawyers argued that it was pointless to imprison her because she would never talk or reveal confidential sources. Under such circumstances, argued her lawyers, jail term would be "merely punitive" and would serve no purpose.^[16][2] Arguing that Miller should be confined to her home and could forego Internet access and cellphone use, Miller's lawyers suggested that "impairing her unrestricted ability to do her job as an investigative journalist...would present the strictest form of coercion to her."^[17] Failing that, Miller's lawyers asked that she be sent to a women's facility in Danbury, Connecticut, nearer to "Ms. Miller's 76-year-old husband," retired book publisher Jason Epstein (who lives in New York City, and whose state of health was the subject of a confidential medical report filed by Miller's attorneys).^[17][16] Upon being jailed, The New York Times reported (on July 7, 2005) that Miller had purchased a cockapoo puppy to keep her husband company during her absence.^[18] Just three weeks into her jail term, The New York Sun reported that Epstein was aboard a Mediterranean cruise with celebrities J. K. Rowling and Isabella Rossellini.^[19] Jason Epstein is a key figure in the popularisation of the trade paperback. ... Joanne Rowling, OBE (born July 31, 1965[1]) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. ... Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former supermodel. ...

On September 17, 2005, the Washington Post reported that Miller had received "[a] parade of prominent government and media officials" during her first 11 weeks in prison, including visits by former U.S. Republican Senator Bob Dole, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.^[20] Some have suggested that Bolton, who had access to classified State Department documents identifying Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative, may have passed sensitive information to Miller, which Miller in turn passed on to the White House. Through a spokesman, Bolton declined to answer questions about the nature of his conversations with and reasons for visiting the jailed reporter. September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Joseph Bob Dole (born July 22, 1923) is best known as a former Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election, in which he was defeated by then-incumbent President Bill Clinton. ... Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, presently working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. ... John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948), an attorney and an American diplomat in several Republican administrations, served as the interim [1] U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the title of ambassador, from August 2005 until December 2006, on a recess appointment. ...

Prison release

After her release on September 29, 2005, Miller agreed to disclose to the grand jury the identity of her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Miller and Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, have not disclosed to the New York Times Miller's role in covering the Plame story. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewis Scooter Libby I. Lewis Scooter Libby Jr. ... Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949) is executive editor of The New York Times. ...

Secondary case

In a separate case, Federal Judge Robert Sweet ruled on February 24, 2005 that Miller was not required to reveal who in the government leaked word of an impending raid to her. Patrick Fitzgerald, the same prosecutor who had Miller jailed in the Plame case, had argued that Miller's calls to groups suspected of funding terrorists had tipped them off to the raid and allowed them time to destroy evidence. Fitzgerald wanted Miller's phone records to confirm the time of the tip and determine who had leaked the information to Miller in the first place. However, Judge Sweet held that because Fitzgerald could not demonstrate in advance that the phone records would provide the information he sought the prosecutor's needs were outweighed by a 'reporter's privilege' to keep sources confidential. February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American attorney and the current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. ...

The Federal Appeals Court in New York on on August 1, 2006 in a 2-to-1 decision ruled that federal prosecutors may inspect the telephone records of Miller and Philip Shenon. Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. wrote: “No grand jury can make an informed decision to pursue the investigation further, much less to indict or not indict, without the reporters’ evidence,” ^[21] August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Journalist shield laws have been enacted in most states, but not at the federal level. However, those state laws vary widely but generally do not provide absolute protection and journalists may still be compelled to testify if they have been witness to a crime or if there is no other way for the court to obtain the evidence.

Media commentary

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Miller has also been characterized as a possible co-conspirator with the Bush Administration in the attempt to discredit former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who openly questioned the intelligence used to justify the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.^[22][23] Columnist Margaret Kimberly wrote "[Miller] isn’t protecting a whistle blower. She is protecting someone who retaliated against a whistle blower."^[24] Predicting in an August 8, 2005 interview with radio host Don Imus that other employees of the New York Times would soon be subpoenaed by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, James Carville speculated "[i]t's going to be very interesting to see whether [Miller's] problem is a First Amendment [problem] — i.e., I want to protect a source — or a Fifth Amendment [problem] — I was out spreading this stuff, too."^[25] Image File history File links Wikinews-logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... For more detail about the political scandal, see Plame affair. ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland others. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Don Imus John Donald Imus, Jr. ... James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, and pundit. ... Amendment V (the Fifth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, is related to legal procedure. ...

In the days since Miller's release from prison and her waiver from a promise of confidentiality from her source, media observers have criticized Miller and the New York Times for not publishing her role in the Plame-Wilson leak, not even to explain why the full story can not now be revealed. The lawyer for Scooter Libby told the media that Miller was advised over a year ago that she could testify about her conversations with Libby. One columnist has reported that Miller has a pending million dollar book deal on the Plame leak story.^{[26][27][28][29]}

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Books

• One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, Simon & Schuster (1990) ISBN 0-671-64472-6
• Saddam Hussein & the Crisis in the Gulf (with Laurie Mylroie) Random House USA Inc (1990) ISBN 0-09-989860-8
• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War (with William Broad and Stephen Engelberg) Simon & Schuster (2001) ISBN 0-684-87158-0
• God Has Ninety Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East", Simon & Schuster (1997) ISBN 0684832283

Laurie Mylroie is a U.S. specialist on Iraq. ... William J. Broad is a U.S. journalist and author of at least 3 books. ...

References

1. ^ Kurtz, Howard, Carol D. Leonnig. "Criminal Contempt Could Lengthen Reporter's Jail Stay", Washington Post, July 16, 2005, pp. A06. Retrieved on 2006-06-25.
2. ^ ^{a b} Government's Memorandum In Opposition To Judith Miller's Motion For Reconsideration Or A Supplemental Order Designating A Particular Place Of Confinement (PDF). Retrieved on 2006-06-25.
3. ^ "US CIA case reporter will testify", BBC News, 30 September 2005. Retrieved on 2006-06-25.
4. ^ Don Van Natta Jr., Adam Liptak, Clifford J. Levy: The Miller Case: A Notebook, a Cause, a Jail Cell and a Deal. The New York Times, 16 October 2005
5. ^ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1016-01.htm
6. ^ [http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/01/29/libby-live-ari-fleischer-one/ Ari Fleischer testimony, January 29, 2007, liveblogging
7. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14941062/
8. ^ NYTimes.com
9. ^ NYT; April 21, 2003
10. ^ Moore, James (08.01.2005). That Awful Power: How Judy Miller Screwed Us All. Retrieved on 2006-06-26.
11. ^ http://nytimes.com/critique
12. ^ Eric Umansky: Miller Genuine Wrath. Slate, May 26, 2004
13. ^ Woodward, Bob. State of Denial. New York: Simon and Shuster, p. 210<ref> On [[November 11]], [[2004]], the ''Times'' published an obituary for Palestinian leader [[Yasser Arafat]] written by Miller. Critics say it contained a number of factual errors with regard to historical context. Miller announced her retirement from the ''[[New York Times]]'' on [[November 9]], [[2005]], citing among other reasons difficulty in performing her job effectively after having become an integral part of the stories she was sent to cover.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/09/miller.retires/index.html| title= Reporter at center of CIA leak retires| date=November 10, 2005| accessdate=2006-06-26| publisher=CNN.com}}</li> <li id="_note-12">'''[[#_ref-12|^]]''' {{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4654969.stm| date=6 July, 2005| title=US reporter jailed in CIA trial| publisher=BBC News}}</li> <li id="_note-13">'''[[#_ref-13|^]]''' http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06cnd-leak.html</li> <li id="_note-04ms407-D.pdf">^ [[#_ref-04ms407-D.pdf_0|^'''''a''''']]&#32;[[#_ref-04ms407-D.pdf_1|^'''''b''''']] {{cite web| url=http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/04ms407-D.pdf| format=PDF| accessdate=2006-06-26| title= Motion Of Judith Miller For Reconsideration Of The Court's October 7, 2004 Order Requiring Confinement "At A Suitable Place" Or, In The Alternative, For A Supplemental Order Designating A Particular "Suitable Place" Of Confinement, And Supporting Memorandum Of Points And Authorities}}</li> <li id="_note-Leonnig_July_2">^ [[#_ref-Leonnig_July_2_0|^'''''a''''']]&#32;[[#_ref-Leonnig_July_2_1|^'''''b''''']] {{cite news| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101962.html| title= Reporters Ask Judge for Home Detention| first=Carol D.| last=Leonnig| publisher=Washington Post| date=July 2, 2005| pages=A02| accessdate=2006-06-26}}</li> <li id="_note-14">'''[[#_ref-14|^]]''' http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E10F63D590C748CDDAE0894DD404482</li> <li id="_note-15">'''[[#_ref-15|^]]''' {{cite news| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/331819p-283554c.html| title=While reporter sits in jail, hubby sets sail| publisher=New York Daily News| date=July 26, 2005| first=Lloyd| last=Grove| accessdate=2006-06-26}}</li> <li id="_note-16">'''[[#_ref-16|^]]''' {{cite news| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601646.html| title=Jailed Reporter Is Distanced From News, Not Elite Visitors| first=Carol D.| last= Leonnig| publisher=Washington Post| date=September 17, 2005| pages=Page A01| accessdate=2006-06-26}}</li> <li id="_note-17">'''[[#_ref-17|^]]''' http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/washington/02phones.html?hp&ex=1154577600&en=f960a842e0fe8b0a&ei=5094&partner=homepage</li> <li id="_note-18">'''[[#_ref-18|^]]''' http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001016586</li> <li id="_note-19">'''[[#_ref-19|^]]''' http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20050818/cm_huffpost/005822</li> <li id="_note-20">'''[[#_ref-20|^]]''' http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/commentary.cfm?ArticleID=2279</li> <li id="_note-21">'''[[#_ref-21|^]]''' http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/8/113805.shtml</li> <li id="_note-22">'''[[#_ref-22|^]]''' http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/54389.htm</li> <li id="_note-23">'''[[#_ref-23|^]]''' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/30/BL2005093000669.html</li> <li id="_note-24">'''[[#_ref-24|^]]''' http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011845.php</li> <li id="_note-25">'''[[#_ref-25|^]]''' http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001877.asp</li></ol></ref>

    External links

    • Judith Miller's Web site
    • [1] Scoops and Truth at the Times, by Russ Baker (The Nation, June 5, 2003)
    • [2] Miller's UN Reporting, by Russ Baker (The Nation, March 31, 2005]
    • Judith Miller, How Gadhafi Lost His Groove, Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2006 (first day of a two-day essay investigating the U.S. foreign policy towards Libya over several administrations and resulting in Libya's abandonment of a nuclear arms program and support for terrorism).
    • Judith Miller, Gadhafi's Leap of Faith, Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2006 (second day of a two-day essay investigating the U.S. foreign policy towards Libya over several administrations and resulting in Libya's abandonment of a nuclear arms program and support for terrorism).
    • Judith Miller. U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts, New York Times, September 8, 2002.
    • "Times and Reporter Reach Agreement on Her Departure" (November 9, 2005)
    • "Judith Miller speaks at the convention of the Society of Professional Journalists" (October 18, 2005)
    • "New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent" by Bill Van Auken
    • "Judith Miller" (SourceWatch entry)
    • Judith Miller News Web site
    • Profile : Judith Miller Voltaire Network, March 5, 2004.
    • "Miller's Big Secret" by Dan Froomkin (The Washington Post, September 30, 2005)
    • "Embedded Reporter's Role In Army Unit's Actions Questioned by Military" by Howard Kurtz (The Washington Post, June 25, 2003)
    • "A Devil Theory of Islam" Edward Said's commentary on Miller's writings (The Nation)
    • "Judith Miller and Jayson Blair" by Margaret Kimberly (Chicago Defender)
    • "Judy Miller's War" by Alexander Cockburn (Counterpunch, August 18, 2003)
    • "Not Fit to Print" by James C. Moore (Salon, May 27, 2004)
    • "Confidentiality of Journalists' Sources Under Threat" (IFEX)
    • "Rudith Miller on Judith" (The Common Ills)
    • "The Source of the Trouble", by Franklin Foer (New York Magazine, June 7, 2004)
    • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Crosses The NY Times' Line of 'Strict Neutrality' (antiwar.com, May 7, 2003, republished May 27, 2004)
    • (Arianna) Huffington Post continuing series on Miller's possible self-interest in nondisclosure.
    • Plamegate timeline, AIPAC / Franklin Pentagon mole indictment, Niger yellowcake connections? at NewsFollowUp.com.
    • Email sent by Dr David Kelly to Judith Miller on July 17, 2003 (the morning of Kelly's alleged suicide)