Judith Miller was born on January 2,1948 and is an American journalist and commentator known for her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction program both before and after the 2003 invasion, which was later discovered to have been based on inaccurate information from the intelligence community.
39 Facts About Judith Miller
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Judith Miller worked in The New York Times Washington bureau before joining Fox News in 2008.
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Judith Miller was involved in the Plame Affair, where Valerie Plame was outed as a Central Intelligence Agency spy by Richard Armitage after her husband published a New York Times op-ed casting doubts on claims that Saddam Hussein sought to purchase uranium from Africa.
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Judith Miller owned the Riviera night club in New Jersey and later operated several casinos in Las Vegas.
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Bill Judith Miller was known for booking iconic Las Vegas performers.
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Judith Miller attended Ohio State University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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Judith Miller graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1969 and received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs.
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Judith Miller is the half-sister of Jimmy Miller who was a record producer for many classic rock bands of the 1960s through to the 1990s including the Rolling Stones, Traffic and Cream.
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Judith Miller's writing during this period was criticised by Middle East scholar Edward Said for evincing an anti-Islamic bias.
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On October 12,2001, Judith Miller opened an anthrax hoax letter mailed to her New York Times office.
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Judith Miller was the only major US media reporter, and The New York Times was the only major US media organization, to be victimized by a fake anthrax letter in the fall of 2001.
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Judith Miller had reported extensively on the subject of biological threats and had co-authored, with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, a book on bio-terrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, which was published on October 2,2001.
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Judith Miller co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, "US Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits", published in The New York Times on September 4,2001, weeks before the first anthrax mailings.
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On December 3,2001, Judith Miller telephoned the Holy Land Foundation for comment, and The New York Times published an article in the late edition papers and on its website that day.
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At The New York Times, Judith Miller wrote on security issues, particularly about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
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Shortly after Judith Miller's article was published, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld appeared on television and pointed to Judith Miller's story in support of their position.
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Judith Miller went on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and stated:.
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In 2005, facing federal court proceedings for refusing to divulge a source in the Plame affair criminal investigation, Judith Miller spent 85 days in jail in Alexandria, Va.
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Two weeks later, Judith Miller negotiated a private severance package with Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
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Judith Miller contested Calame's claims about her reporting and gave no ground in defending her work.
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Judith Miller said the paper wanted "stories about the existence of WMD" rather than "skeptical stories".
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On October 1,2004, federal Judge Thomas F Hogan found Miller in contempt of court for refusing to appear before a federal grand jury, which was investigating who had leaked to reporters the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative.
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Judith Miller did not write an article about the subject at the time of the leak, but others did, notably Robert Novak, spurring the investigation.
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On July 6,2005, Judge Hogan ordered Judith Miller to serve her sentence at "a suitable jail within the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia".
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Judith Miller was taken to Alexandria City Jail on July 7,2005.
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Patrick Fitzgerald, the same prosecutor who had had Judith Miller jailed in the Plame case, argued that Judith Miller's calls to groups suspected of funding terrorists had tipped them off to the raid and allowed them time to destroy evidence.
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On September 17,2005, The Washington Post reported that Miller had received a "parade of prominent government and media officials" during her first 11 weeks in prison, including visits by former US Republican Senator Bob Dole, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and John R Bolton, US Ambassador to the United Nations.
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On Tuesday, January 30,2007, Judith Miller took the stand as a witness for the prosecution against Lewis Libby.
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Judith Miller discussed three conversations she had had with Libby in June and July 2003, including the meeting on June 23,2003.
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In July 2005, several months prior to her October 2005 resignation from The New York Times, Judith Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a CIA officer.
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On September 29,2005, after spending 85 days in jail, Judith Miller was released following a telephone call with Libby.
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Under oath, Judith Miller was questioned by Fitzgerald before a federal grand jury the following day, September 30,2005, but was not relieved of contempt charges until after testifying again on October 12,2005.
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Judith Miller said she could not remember who gave her the name "Valerie Plame" but she was sure it didn't come from Libby.
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Judith Miller testified as a witness on January 30,2007, at the trial of Scooter Libby, which began in January 2007.
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Since leaving The New York Times, Judith Miller has continued her work as a writer in Manhattan and has contributed several op-ed pieces to The Wall Street Journal.
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Judith Miller's duties included being a contributing editor for the organization's publication, City Journal.
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Judith Miller has been a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and has served on a prestigious National Academy of Sciences panel examining how best to expand of the work of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which since 1991 has sought to stop the spread of WMD material and expertise from the former Soviet Union.
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Critics subsequently wrote that "Judith Miller's war reporting was disastrously wrong, and now she's trying desperately to spin it all away,".
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Every bad thing Judith Miller has ever been accused of turns out to be wrong or taken out of context, according to her.