Judith Miller Lands at Fox News [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Former New York Times [3] reporter Judith Miller [4], whose misleading stories about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction [5] helped make the Bush administration's case for war, has joined Fox News as a contributor, where she will provide "commentary and analysis on national security issues [6], counterterrorism, and international affairs." Miller spent 85 days in jail in 2005 for refusing to testify about her conversations with Dick Cheney [7]'s chief of staff, Scooter Libby [8], in which Libby tried to feed her information during the White House outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson [9]. Conflicts with other editors and reporters over Miller's reporting eventually led to her departure from the New York Times. Since then, she has gone on to work for the right-wing Manhattan Institute [10]. In explaining the decision to hire Miller, Fox Senior Vice President John Moody said, "We've all had stories that didn't come out [11] exactly as we had hoped. ... She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for."