IraqGate: Judith Miller (NY Times) Under Attack For Fabrications

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday June 22, @10:45AM

Miller's obscure ties with Chalabi and "Dark Winter"

The Age

US war reporter under fire

June 22 2003 -By Christopher Reed

A reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, is the target of claims that she and her newspaper have been the vehicle for White House and Pentagon "propaganda" over Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Miller, a Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of a best-seller on biological warfare, is a hawk in the United States media coverage of Iraq's alleged weapons possession.

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Miller's star status, frequent TV appearances and her newspaper's position as the daily US news agenda-setter, made her reports crucial to the war debate.

But her work has been attacked in The Washington Post, the New York Observer, The Nation magazine, the influential Washington newsletter CounterPunch, and independent weapons think tanks in Washington, such as the Arms Control Association.

Its executive director, Daryl Kimball, said: "The Times and Miller accepted shaky information from official sources that they should have known was questionable. In fact, it was propaganda."

Miller was unavailable for comment.

The Judith Miller- Ahmed Chalabi (INC)- affair

Intra-Times Battle Over Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)
... Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress and Times source. ... An internal
e-mail by Judith Miller, the paper's top reporter on bioterrorism ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ A39280-2003May25.html - Similar pages

RuminateThis: OF JAYSON BLAIR, THE NYT, AHMED CHALABI AND THE FCC
... should be going after writer Judith Miller, who in an ... a broad range of sources, Miller
relied on ... partisan intelligence provided by one Ahmed Chalabi - the long ...
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FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: Troubles at the Times: Beyond Blair
... The Times' Judith Miller has been ... colleague, John Burns, revealed that controversial
Iraqi opposition figure Ahmed Chalabi has, in Miller's words, "provided ...
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... people at the New York Times that hate Judith Miller, because someone ... from ultra-sensitive
elite military sources, but from Ahmed Chalabi (the controversial ...
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Scoop: How Saddam Brought Down the Mother of All Editors
... Only Judith Miller’s contribution withstood scrutiny. ... Saddam at Augusta, she did
produce the phone number of a caddy who once carried Ahmed Chalabi’s bag ...
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Susan Lenfestey: In WMD debate, don't ignore role of Times and an ...
... debate: the credibility given to Ahmed Chalabi by the ... Chalabi also found a receptive
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AlterNet: War on Iraq: News Log: Chalabi cited as secret source ...
... Judith Miller's controversial columns for the New York Times cited unnamed (and
admittedly ... was none other than CIA and Pentagon buddy Ahmed Chalabi, who also ...
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truthout - Pentagon Accused of Disinformation
... Judith Miller, bio-terrorism specialist for the same paper, who, without warning
him, had just published an article on the formerly exiled Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi, ...
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... Some examples: --The Times' Judith Miller has been responsible ... that controversial
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IHT: Only some see Chalabi as successor to Saddam
... Judith Miller, Michael Moss and Lowell Bergman NYT Friday, April 11, 2003. A joyous
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Judith Miller was also part of "Dark Winter"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html

"...As regards New York, there is another element involved in germ warfare operations. Actually, a multi-million dollar bunker - serving as a command and control center in the event of a biological attack - was set up at 7 World Trade Center at the direction of Rudolph Giuliani, who also oversaw the mass spraying of malathion over the boroughs of New York City when the West Nile Virus hit town a few summers previously. The man Giuliani placed in charge of that operation, Jerry Hauer, also happened to be the man who found John O'Neill the position at the World Trade Center, as well as being the one who - by his own admission - identified O'Neill's body.

Moreover, there has been a widespread campaign on to link the threat of al-Qaida with that of a mass biological attack. At least the day after September 11, the link - as the Anthrax mailings had yet to arise - was not so apparent. Yet on PBS' Frontline, the New York Times' Judith Miller (no apparent relation to John Miller, as far as I'm aware), accompanied by the New York Times' James Risen, was interviewed as an expert on al-Qaida. Several weeks later, Judith Miller would once more make the headlines as the apparent recipient of an anthrax mailing which turned out to be a false alarm - yet was all the same conveniently timed with the well-publicized launching of her book on...germ warfare.

As was later discovered, the anthrax mailings petered out once the news leaked that a DNA test revealed the material to be of the Ames strain of anthrax, an agent synthesized out of a CIA laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Nevertheless, this was sufficient to fast-track Bioport's exclusive license for the anthrax vaccine toward FDA approval. Formerly, Bioport's experimental anthrax vaccine was being forcibly administered - under threat of court-martial - to hundreds of thousands of American servicemen (in conformity with Bioport's exclusive and lucrative contract with the Department of Defense).

Incidentally, Judith Miller, along with Jerry Hauer, was among 17 "key" participants in a biowarfare exercise known as "Dark Winter" - a think tank-funded scenario that aimed to study the nationwide effects of a hypothetical smallpox outbreak. One of the sponsors of that exercise was the Anser Institute of Homeland Security, an organization established before September 11, 2001. Interestingly enough, the curious phrase "homeland security" was starting to creep up with increasing frequency in the vocabularies of certain political cliques (Dick Cheney, the Hart-Rudman Commission, et al.) in the year or two leading up to 9/11..."

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