Although few of her journalist compadres are inclined to swim against the tide and say it out loud, in private some have noted that, until Ms. Miller offered herself up as a hecatomb of the free press, she had achieved the status of being one of the least trustworthy, least-admired practitioners of her craft. Prior to this affair, if there had been an anti–Pulitzer Prize, not a few of her colleagues would have put her on the short list for the honor.
http://tinyurl.com/dfwo8 In New York magazine, Franklin Foer condensed a part of the record that had gained Ms. Miller the angry disgust of other reporters: “During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction …. And, most memorably, she co-wrote a piece in which administration officials suggested that Iraq had attempted to import aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons …. ”
It was such prose that made Ms. Miller The Times’ queen of military pulp fiction. It also made her perhaps the most important journalistic collaborator in Mr. Bush’s propaganda campaign leading up to and justifying a war that the United States can’t win, can’t lose and can’t end.
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