Judith Miller
Judith Miller
Judith Milleris an American journalist and writer. She worked in The New York Times Washington bureau, where she became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destructionprogram both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 January 1948
CountryUnited States of America
If a journalist cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, the journalist cannot function and there cannot be a free press. The freest and fairest societies are not only those with independent judiciaries, but those with an independent press that works every day to keep government accountable by publishing what the government might not want the public to know.
If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.
I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.
pressed Mr. Libby to discuss additional information that was in the more detailed, classified version of the estimate.
Because I had become part of the story. I had actually become part of the news, and that's something no New York Times reporter wants to do.
Those who need anonymity are not only the poor and the powerless, those whose lives or jobs might be in jeopardy if they speak up publicly, but even the powerful, ... All are entitled to anonymity if they are telling the truth and have something of importance to say to the American people.
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
Let's wait and see what Mr. Fitzgerald has. If he brings indictments, if he has a very serious case, then I might have to say that perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was justified,
Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper's sourcing and ethical guidelines and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed.
My interview notes show that Mr. Libby sought from the beginning, before Mr. Wilson's name became public, to insulate his boss from Mr. Wilson's charges,
More than two dozen reporters have been subpoenaed in the past two years and are in danger of going to jail. If the current trend prevails, the Alexandria Detention Facility may have to open an entire new wing to house reporters.
This was the first time I had been told that Mr. Wilson's wife might work for the CIA, ... it wasn't that important to me. I was focused on the main question: Was our WMD intelligence slanted?