Judith Miller
Judith Miller
Judith Milleris an American journalist and writer. She worked in The New York Times Washington bureau, where she became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destructionprogram both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations, particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi. The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 January 1948
CountryUnited States of America
If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.
If a journalist cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, the journalist cannot function and there cannot be a free press. The freest and fairest societies are not only those with independent judiciaries, but those with an independent press that works every day to keep government accountable by publishing what the government might not want the public to know.
I think there's a bargain in every garage sale - not as much as there used to be, but they're still there.
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
Yet my notes suggested that we had discussed her job,
We are only as good as our sources. If they are mistaken, we will be wrong. And a source's confidence that we will not divulge their identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud, or abuse or other wrongdoing.
We are only as good as our sources, ... If they are mistaken, we will be wrong. And a source's confidence that we will not divulge their identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud, or abuse or other wrongdoing.
voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.
He was pressing about what you would say. When I wouldn't give him an assurance that you would exonerate Libby, if you were to cooperate, he then immediately gave me this, 'Don't go there,' or, 'We don't want you there.'
There is a full-scale assault by the federal government now on journalists in order to get at people who disclose classified information.
This was the first time I had been told that Mr. Wilson's wife might work for the CIA, ... it wasn't that important to me. I was focused on the main question: Was our WMD intelligence slanted?
You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
Because I had become part of the story. I had actually become part of the news, and that's something no New York Times reporter wants to do.