NPR Covering J. Miller Now >

[Stephanie]

Miller interviewed in February: Confidential sources aer the lifeblood of what we do.

Her Pulitzer for story on al Queda. She took great risk to travel in Afghanistan.

Joined the Times in 1977 after NPR.

Her 2002 story re: aluminum tubes. Cheney quotes it that very day. Five days later she briefly notes that there were questions re WMD - story appears on p. 13.

Miller says on Newshour that they found more than a smoking gun - they found a silver bullet re: scientist claims of chemical weapons.

Flawed stories inNYT. Colleagues say uncomfortable to criticize her now.

Her inabiltiy to distinguish btw reliable and unreliabel sources including Chalabi

[Stephanie]

1. Plame case

Wilson's op-ed struck at Bush admin credibility. Miller was to report on why task force she was embedded with found nothing. The leak. Miller's role remains a mystery. Fitz says she can confirm the leaking. Miller would not comment for story. She is reading The Gulag Archipelago in jail!

[Stephanie]

2. Total non-story - sorrry to have bothered you all

What a pile of nothing that was!

[wurzel]

3. The "silver bullet scientist " turned out to be an "intelligence officer".

Did Miller know that?

[Al-CIAda]

4. "Cheney quotes it that very day." Silly me, but that sounds a lot like

collusion and coordination.