Will Bunch in the Philly Daily News raises some great questions about Miller's recent resume: how, despite being a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, she "forgot" which high White House source broke federal law and leaked to her the name of a CIA agent; how she got a security clearance and had access to secret information; how, despite being taken off the beat by NYT editor Bill Keller after the Iraq WMD fiasco, "she kept kind of drifting on her own back into the national security realm," etc.
But there is another piece of the story little noted, John Bolton was a regular source for her during the reporting on Iraqi WMDs, he visited Miller in prison, and Miller was one of the main reporters, nationwide, driving the storyline on the UN Oil-for-Food "scandal."
From Barbara Crossette, former New York Times UN bureau chief (1994-2001), writing on Poynter Online (a web service for journalists):
Obscured behind the large issues of weapons of mass destruction and Joseph Wilson's links with the CIA is another story. Over the last year or so, Judith Miller also wrote a series of damaging reports on the "oil for food" scandal at the United Nations -- in particular, personally damaging to Secretary General Kofi Annan because the reports were frequently based on half-truths or hearsay peddled on Capitol Hill by people determined to force Annan out of office. At the UN, this was interpreted as payback for the UN's refusal to back the US war in Iraq.
Liberal media, Howie?
HOGWASH!!!
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