Judith Miller is a former reporter for The New York Times and author of four books on the Middle East, biological weapons and the Holocaust. For information on her prosecution for refusing to reveal sources to federal prosecutors, see the news section of this Web site or the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.



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• Judy Speaks in Brazil

• Iraqi Militants Becoming Citizens

• Intelligent Policing Comes to New Jersey

• Best of the Web -- I've Got a Secret

• The Other Terrorism

• WHAT I LEARNED AT 'ANTI-JIHAD U'

• FBI VS. THE NYPD: Behind the Latest Flap

• Anti-terrorism in paradise: Lacking funds and manpower, Bratton's war on terror is based on the principle of sharing.

• From the Shores of Tripoli

• Book Review: George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm






Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller, William Broad, Stephen Engelberg
Simon & Schuster, 2001




God Has Ninety-Nine Names: A Reporter's Journey Through a Militant Middle East
by Judith Miller
Simon & Schuster, 1996




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My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room

New York Times, October 16, 2005

By JUDITH MILLER

In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing an essay in The New York Times that accused the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. The administration, he charged, ignored findings of a secret mission he had undertaken for the Central Intelligence Agency - findings, he said, that undermined claims that Iraq was seeking uranium for a nuclear bomb.

It was the first time Mr. Wilson had gone public with his criticisms of the White House. Yet he had already become a focus of significant scrutiny at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

Almost two weeks earlier, in an interview with me on June 23, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, discussed Mr. Wilson's activities and placed blame for intelligence failures on the C.I.A. In later conversations with me, on July 8 and July 12, Mr. Libby, who is Mr. Cheney's top aide, played down the importance of Mr. Wilson's mission and questioned his performance.

My notes indicate that well before Mr. Wilson published his critique, Mr. Libby told me that Mr. Wilson's wife may have worked on unconventional weapons at the C.I.A.

My notes do not show that Mr. Libby identified Mr. Wilson's wife by name. Nor do they show that he described Valerie Wilson as a covert agent or "operative," as the conservative columnist Robert D. Novak first described her in a syndicated column published on July 14, 2003. (Mr. Novak used her maiden name, Valerie Plame.)

This is what I told a federal grand jury and the special counsel investigating whether administration officials committed a crime by leaking Ms. Plame's identity and the nature of her job to reporters.

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Posted by Joshua Tanzer | October 16, 2005


Judith Miller Chats with CNN's Dobbs, Calls Jail 'Demeaning'

E & P, October 04, 2005

NEW YORK CNN's Lou Dobbs was perhaps Judith Miller's biggest TV supporter during her 85 days in jail, and the New York Times reporter recognized this Tuesday, granting him an exclusive interview.

Miller called the detention facility in Alexandria, Va., "the most soulless place I had ever been. ... It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely."

She admitted, however, that perhaps she will feel that the federal prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, acted in good faith if he brings indictments this month. "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," Miller said.

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Posted by Aaron Selverston | October 06, 2005


Freed Reporter Says She Upheld Principles

New York Times, October 4, 2005

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was released from jail last week after agreeing to testify in a case involving the leak of the name of a C.I.A. operative, returned to the newsroom yesterday declaring that she had upheld the principles she had gone to jail to protect.

"I'm sure I did many things that were not completely perfect in the eyes of either First Amendment absolutists or those who wrote every day saying 'Testify, testify, you're covering up for these people,' " Ms. Miller told a gathering of her colleagues in the newsroom. "The pressures were enormous. I did the only thing I could do. I followed my conscience, and I tried to follow the principles that I laid out at the beginning."

Ms. Miller said she had needed an explicit waiver from her source, whom she identified publicly for the first time as I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. At the same time, she said, she was also holding out for a pledge by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, that her testimony would be limited to her conversations with Mr. Libby and would not address other sources.

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Posted by Aaron Selverston | October 04, 2005