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.



In this section:

• 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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Reporting on mobile labs

To those interested in pre-war WMD intelligence on Iraq, here are three stories that I wrote, or co-wrote, about the issue of Iraq's alleged mobile biological labs.

Aftereffects: The Hunt for Evidence, May 10, 2003

Aftereffects: Germ Weapons, May 21, 2003

Some Analysts Of Iraq Trailers Reject Germ Use, June 7, 2003

Each was an exclusive. The three together reflected my reporting on the ground in Iraq and in Washington as doubts among experts grew about the discovery of the trailers in Iraq. All three were published in The New York Times. I think they show that the answer to insufficient reporting, or a story that is wrong, is more reporting, preferably by the reporter who wrote the first story. I regret that in other instances, the Times did not permit me to report on the growing doubts about WMD intelligence in other areas as well.

Judy Miller

Posted by Joshua Tanzer | April 13, 2006


Memo on Italian award

Viareggio, Italy, Nov. 29, 2005

Hello friends:

I have just returned from Italy where the Unione Nazionale Cronisti Italiani, UNCI, Italy’s largest union representing some 2,000 news reporters and editors, honored me for helping to preserve a free press by spending 85 days in jail to protect the confidentiality of sources.

On Monday, I traveled to the beautiful seaside town of Viareggio, in Tuscany, to accept the tribute at UNCI’s annual meeting, which was attended by almost 200 reporters and editors from throughout Italy. UNCI is Italy’s the most important union for news reporters and editors in print, radio, and television.

“We know her case is controversial,” Illaria Bonuccelli, the union’s vice president, told the journalists at this year’s meeting and awards ceremony. “But we wanted to pay tribute to Judy Miller’s sacrifice and her efforts to protect the critical relationship between reporters and their sources.”

Ms. Bonuccelli, herself an award-winning investigative reporter for the daily paper, Il Tirreno, said this was the first time that the union had ever honored a foreign reporter.

“Our members are often sued, threatened, and sometimes sent to jail,” she told me. “So we understand the sacrifice you made for the free flow of information.”

Although the union had not taken a formal vote, she said, an informal survey of her colleagues suggested that an overwhelming majority hoped that the U.S. Congress would enact a Federal shield law to protect reporters from being required to testify about confidential sources in civil and criminal proceedings. She said she would urge her fellow union members to make their views known to the U.S. Senate and Congress.

At the awards ceremony, Ms. Bonuccelli presented me with a bronze statue of Pegasus, the mythical winged horse, designed by “Marinsky,” the London-born sculptor who has worked for many years in Italy. Marinsky’s work has been collected worldwide, and his bronzes have been become part of the Florence Art Gallery’s permanent collection. His statues are inspired by the culture of Italian and in particular, of Tuscany, where he has lived and worked for many years.

If you are an opera lover and find yourself in Tuscany in summer, you might want to take in Viareggio’s celebrated Puccini Festival, where works of the maestro are performed each year in July and August in an open-air theatre overlooking a lake and next to a villa where he composed. Though born in Luca, Puccini wrote most of his most beloved operas here. He is buried at the villa.



Allbest,

Judy

Posted by Judith Miller | December 08, 2005