Judith Miller

…when it emerged that reporter Judith Miller, who was at the time attached to the Washington bureau, had inaccurately reported on the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq during the lead-up to the 2003 declaration of war on that country. However, Abramson emerged largely unscathed from the controversy.…

In 2002 Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Judith Miller wrote a series of articles (some with other Times reporters) that indicated Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Miller’s findings were widely repeated, and her reporting was even cited by the administration of Pres. George W. Bush as evidence justifying the need to…

…its First Amendment Award to Judith Miller of The New York Times, who spent 85 days in jail rather than reveal the confidential source who had given her information about an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative. The Deadline Club chapter of SPJ in New York expressed concern about the award…