"Judith Miller" is an American journalist and writer. She is formerly of the The New York Times/New York Times Washington bureau, where she became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after 2003 invasion of Iraq/the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on faulty information, particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi. A number of stories she wrote while working for The New York Times were deemed to be inaccurate by her employer. According to commentator Ken Silverstein, Miller's Iraq reporting "effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist."

Miller was later involved in the Plame Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency became widely known. When asked to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the CIA leak. Miller retired from her job at the New York Times in November 2005. Later, she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. On December 29, 2010, numerous media outlets reported that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine Newsmax.

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I was a journalist doing my job, protecting my source until my source freed me to perform my civic duty to testify.

I served 85 days in jail because of my belief in the importance of upholding the confidential relationship journalists have with their sources, ... Believe me, I did not want to be in jail.

I am hopeful that my very long stay in jail will serve to strengthen the bond between reporters and their sources.

Directly from my source.

I served 85 days in jail because of my belief in the importance of upholding the confidential relationship that journalists have with their sources.

You'll have to ask Mr. Fitzgerald why it was so important.

She walked them through those conversations.

My source genuinely wanted me to testify.