You really ARE clueless, aren't you Twatson? Judy Miller has been a Chimpistration stooge since before the invasion. She's covering for her WH sources - probably Rove and/or Cheney.
en.wikipedia.org
" A controversial figure, Miller has garnered both acclaim (including sharing a Pulitzer Prize), and criticism for relying too heavily on sources friendly to the Bush administration such as Ahmed Chalabi. Miller's naive over-reliance on anonymous high-level sources, they say, biased her reporting and the testimony of the exiles has been called into serious doubt. It has been argued that the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened without this reporting."
"...Miller, who started at the New York Times in 1977, came under particularly heavy criticism for her reporting on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. On September 7, 2002, Miller and Times reporter Michael R. Gordon reported the interception of metal tubes bound for Iraq. Her front page story quoted (unnamed) "American officials" and "American intelligence experts" who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited (unnamed) "Bush administration officials" who claimed that in recent months, Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb."[1] Miller added that "Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war." Although Miller conceded that some intelligence experts found the information on Iraq's weapons programs "spotty," she did not report specific and detailed objections, including a report filed with the US government more than a year before Miller's article appeared by retired Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist, Houston G. Wood III, who concluded that the tubes were not meant for centrifuges.
Shortly after Miller's article was published, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld all appeared on television and pointed to Miller's story as a partial basis for going to war. Subsequent analyses by various agencies all concluded that there was no way the tubes could have been used for uranium-enrichment centrifuges.
Miller would later claim, in her article "Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert", that Weapons of Mass Destruction had been found in Iraq. This again was widely repeated in the press with Miller going on the Jim Lehrer Newshour to proclaim it "more than a smoking gun" and a "silver bullet." Unfortunately, this story was also later found to be false." |
