The Story (54 page)
Authors: Judith Miller
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. My belated discovery of the importance of my notation of “Bureau” explained something that puzzled me during the defense's cross-examination of me on the stand in 2007. Libby's lawyers kept asking me whether other agencies, such as the State Department, had “bureaus” rather than “offices” or “divisions” or “directorates.” But since neither they nor I knew that Plame had used the State Department as cover for her CIA work, the questions seemed odd, and their intention, at least to me, unclear.
8
. Stan Crock, “
Fair Game
Glamorizes Distortions and Perpetuates Myths,”
World Affairs
, November 8, 2010, p. 4;
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/fair-game-glamorizes-distortions-and-perpetuates-myths
.
9
. Rizzo,
Company Man
, pp. 206â7.
10
. Dick Cheney, interview, January 2014.
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. O'Sullivan, who worked at the State Department before being sent to Iraq soon after the invasion in 2003, argues that “there was no Sunni partner” willing to work with US forces to oppose Al Qaeda until 2006. Until then, she said, the US military's top brass was convinced that the occupation of Iraq by US forces was the root cause of the insurgency, rather than Sunni bitterness over having lost control of the state they had controlled until Saddam's ouster.
12
. Thomas Donnelly and Gary J. Schmitt, “The Right Fight Now: Counterinsurgency, Not Caution, Is the Answer in Iraq,”
Washington Post
, October 26, 2003,
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/409635877.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+26%2C+2003&author=Tom+Donnelly+and+Gary+Schmitt&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=&dese=The+Right+Fight+Now%3B+Counterinsurgency%2C+Not+Caution%2C+Is+the+Answer+in+Iraq
.
13
. Judith Miller, “A Witness Against Al Qaeda Says the U.S. Let Him Down,”
New York Times
, June 3, 2002,
www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/a-witness-against-al-qaeda-says-the-us-let-him-down.html
. Despite my admiration of Fitzgerald's vigorous prosecution of terrorists in the first World Trade Center bombing, I was one of the few journalists to write critically about his mistreatment of Essam Al Ridi, an Egyptian pilot who helped him convict Bin Laden's personal secretary. Al Ridi told me, and an FBI agent quoted in my article agreed, that once Al Ridi's usefulness as a witness ended, Fitzgerald did not honor promises he had made that he would not be penalized in the United States or mistreated in his native Egypt.
14
. “Innovation, A
New York Times
internal report,” March 24, 2004,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/224332847/NYT-Innovation-Report-2014
.
15
. Leonard Downie, Jr.,
The Obama Administration and the Press
(New York: Committee to Protect Journalists, October 10, 2013),
http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php
.
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. The news of Abramson's firing stunned the media but generated little interest among readers, even at the
Times.
The front-page article about the dismissal of the first female head of the nation's leading newspaper was only the tenth most emailed story of the dayâbehind a story entitled “Steak That Sizzles on the Stovetop” and Frank Bruni's column, “Read, Kids, Read.” BuzzFeed's Kate Aurthur, a former
Times
employee, wrote that Abramson “got fired with less dignity than Judith Miller, who practically started the Iraq War.”
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. By late 2005, according to a Pew poll, 43 percent of Americans thought that America's
and Britain's leaders were “mostly lying” when they claimed that Iraq had WMD before the war.
18
. “As New Dangers Loom, More Think the U.S. Does âToo Little' to Solve World Problems,” Pew Research Center, August 28, 2014,
www.people-press.org/2014/08/28/as-new-dangers-loom-more-think-the-u-s-does-too-little-to-solve-world-problems
.
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Abdullah, Prince of Saudi Arabia,
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Abrams, Floyd,
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Chalabi and,
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Dowd as close friend,
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Miller in Iraq War and,
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Miller's jailing and,
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Miller's return to the
Times
after jail and “war on Judy,”
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Miller's sources and,
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Miller's stories restricted by,
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Miller's WMD reporting and,
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on Obama's White House,
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“The
Times
and Iraq” editor's note and,
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as Washington bureau chief,
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Abu Sayyaf,
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Achille Lauro,
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Afghanistan
Abu Khabab camp,
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biological weapons lab in,
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Faizabad,
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Miller interviews Massoud and jihadists,
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Miller visits with Laili Helms, Taliban interviews,
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terrorist training camps in,
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US war in,
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Against All Enemies
(Clarke),
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Agee, Philip,
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Aghion, Anne,
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Ajami, Fouad,
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Albright, David,
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Iraq's efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb and,
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WMD aluminum tubes intelligence and,
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Alexandria Detention Center (ADC),
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Alibek, Ken (Kanatjan Alibekov),
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All-Russian Institute of Phytopathology, Golitsino, Russia,
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Almodóvar, Pedro,
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Al Qaeda
Bin Laden founds and funds,
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black flag of,
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Bush war on terror and,
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chemical and biological weapons programs,
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jihad against the West,
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London bombings of 2005,
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Miller's investigation and stories,
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9/11 terrorist attacks,
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Reid shoe bombing attempt,
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Saddam Hussein and,
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spread of,
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US embassy bombings, Kenya and Tanzania,
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US response to 9/11 and,
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American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem,
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America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
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Ani, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-,
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Anson, Robert Sam,
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anthrax letter attacks,
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early theories about Iraqi link,
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intelligence community and,
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Miller-Engelberg article on,
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US source of spores,
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Anton, Michael,
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Apple, R. W., Jr. “Johnny,”
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Gulf War coverage,
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Arab nationalism,
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Oslo Accords and,
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Arnold, Martin,
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Arrows of the Night
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Ascari, Ismail,
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Ashcroft, John,
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Aspen Strategy Group,
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Aspin, Les,
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Assad, Hafiz al-,
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Atomic Soldiers
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Atta, Mohamed
middle-class background,
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Aurthur, Kate,
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Ayres, B. Drummond, Jr.,
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Aziz, Tariq,
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Baer, Robert,
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Baker, James A., III,
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Baker, Peter,
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Baquet, Dean,
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Baranger, Walt,
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Miller commencement speech,
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Barringer, Felicity,
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Barstow, David,
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Barzani, Massoud,
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Bashir, Omar al-,
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Beckinsale, Kate,
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Beers, Rand,
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Behind the Times
(Diamond),
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Bennett, Bob
Keller-Abramson order to Miller for a first-person account of grand jury testimony and,
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Miller's grand jury testimony and,
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Miller's protection of sources case and,
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Miller's resignation and legal settlement,
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Berenson, Alex,
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Bergen, Peter,
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Bernstein, Carl,
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Bin Laden, Osama,
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Al Qaeda begun by,
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Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum, and,
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escape from Tora Bora,
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fatwa declaring war on America,
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interview with Bergen,
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interview with John Miller,
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killing of,
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Miller declines interview,
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Miller's early coverage of,
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9/11 terrorist attacks,
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as terrorist financier,
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US efforts to kill,
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US intelligence community and,
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Biohazard
(Alibek and Handelman),
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biological weapons,
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