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Judith Miller (born 1948 in New York City) is an investigative journalist for the New York Times. She shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her coverage of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.Miller, who started at the Times in 1977, has come under criticism for her reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Her critics accuse her of relying too heavily on sources friendly to the Bush administration, in particular Ahmed Chalabi and other exiles she met through him. Miller's over-reliance on anonymous high-level sources, say her critics, biased her reporting and the testimony of the exiles has been called into serious doubt.
An important instance of this occurred in September 2002 when she reported on the interception of metal tubes bound for Iraq. Her story stated that they would be used to develop nuclear material. Houston G. Wood III, a retired Oak Ridge physicist who had filed a report with the US government more than a year before concluding that the tubes were not meant for centrifuges, was shocked by the report. However, soon after Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld all appeared on television and pointed to the story as a partial basis for war.
The Middle East Forum, which openly declared support for a US invasion of Iraq, had listed Miller as an expert speaker on its website.
On May 26, 2004, a week after the U.S. government apparently severed ties with Chalabi, a Times editorial acknowledged that some of the Times 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". While the editorial rejected "blame on individual reporters", others noted that 10 of the 12 flawed stories discussed had been written or co-written by Miller.
On October 1, 2004, Miller was found in contempt of court for refusing to disclose the source who leaked the fact that Valerie Plame was a covert CIA operative, and sentenced to up to 18 months in jail. The sentence was suspended while under appeal. 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.
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