God Has Ninety-nine Names, 111, 135, 336n4, 337n3
Gulf War’s impact on Saudi Arabia, Times Sunday Magazine cover story, 106–7
“Holy Warriors” series, pre-9/11, 146
al-Husayni story, Times front page, 184
“Iraq Accused: A Case of Genocide,” 15–16, 156, 332n16
“Israel Says That a Prisoner’s Tale Links Arabs in U.S. to Terrorism,” 110–11, 337n4
“Leading Exile Figure Draws Mixed Reviews,” 188–89, 344n2
“The Melted Dog: Memories of an Atomic Childhood,” 33, 334n2
“A Nation Challenged: The Investigation; Anthrax Itself May Point to Origin of Letter Sent to Daschle,” 152, 222, 340n10, 348n22
One, by One, by One, 90–91
pink-footed booby article, Washington Post, 46
“Poison Island: A Special Report,” 115–16, 125–28, 338n5
“Reagan Declares Marines’ Role in ‘Vital’ to Counter Soviet in Lebanon: Toll at 192,” 68, 336n2
“Refugees Are Hostages of Lebanon Talks,” 87, 337n4
“Reporter’s Farewell,” 301
Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, 5, 11, 102, 208
“Saudi King Says He Expects Iraq to Yield,” 13, 332n12
“Secret Sites: An Iraqi Defector Tells of Work on At Least 20 Hidden Weapons Sites,” 160–61, 341n6
“Some Analysts of Iraq Trailers Reject Germ Use,” 209–10, 346n8
“Terror and Response” series, 149
terrorist attacks, Lebanon and Kuwait, Times front page analysis, 76–77
“Threats and Responses: Germ Weapons; C.I.A. Hunts Iraq Ties to Soviet Smallpox,” 198–99, 345n5
“Tracking Baghdad’s Arsenal: Inside the Arsenal: A Special Report; Defector Describes Iraq’s Atom Bomb Push,” 157–58, 341n4
“U.S. Aides Say Iraqi Truck Could Be a Germ-War Lab,” 209–10, 347n9
“U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts,” 214
Miller, Mary Theresa Connolly (mother), 30–31, 33, 34
Miller, Susan (sister), 31
Mitchell, Andrea, 352n6
Mnookin, Seth, 340n4
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 136
Mohieddin, Gamal, 65–66, 67, 74, 82
Moran, Paul, 341n5
Morillon, Lucie, 286
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 270
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 314
Mubarak, Hosni, 13, 77, 103
Mueller, Robert, 165
Muhammad’s Army, 106
Murdoch, Rupert, 354–55n14
Murray, Thomas, 37
Muslim Brotherhood, 77
Mutawakil, Wakil Ahmad, 141, 142, 143
Myers, Richard, 233
My Life (Clinton), 132
Mylroie, Laurie, 5, 11, 102
Nation, 222
neoconservatives (Bush administration). See also Feith, Douglas; Perle, Richard; Wolfowitz, Paul
Bolton at UN and, 262
Chalabi and, 157, 189, 207, 341n1
CIA director Woolsey and, 151
criticism of Miller and, xii, 206, 209
Iraq War and Saddam overthrow advocated, 150, 151, 154, 166, 168, 169, 314
Plame leak and, 304
spread of democracy in the Middle East and, 168, 326
Wolfowitz on Libby, 314
working for Rumsfeld, 167
News of the World, 354–55n14
Newsweek, 86
New York Observer, 317
New York Review of Books, 221
New York Times. See also Miller, Judith; Rosenthal, Abe M.; Sulzberger, Arthur, Jr.; specific editors and reporters
Abramson firing, 320, 358n16
Blair plagiarism scandal and, 184, 185–86, 349n5
book donations to prison, 269
Bush’s West Point address coverage, 170
Butler op-ed on Iraq and anthrax letters, 151
Cairo bureau, 65–66, 74, 81–82, 85
career path at, 98, 101
Chalabi and, 232
circulation numbers and falling readership, 317
confirmation of sources and, 263
conflict-of-interest and nepotism rules, 60
editor’s note, “The Times and Iraq,” on prewar Iraq reporting, 205, 225–26, 228–29, 230, 231, 232, 249, 253, 347n10, 348–49n2, 349n4, 350n8
“entrenched culture of indolence,” 94
firing of Raines and Boyd, 191, 193–94
foreign staff, 65–66, 69, 73, 74
Guild (union), 297
Gulf War coverage, 11, 102, 104–7
headquarters, New York, 48, 49, 171
history of, 55
“Holy Warriors” series, pre-9/11, 146
investigations editor lacking, pre-Iraq war, 346n7
investigative journalism and, 55
Iran-Contra scandal story, 95–97
Iraq War coverage, 173–84, 187–88, 189–91 (see also Miller, Judith; specific reporters)
joint bylines, 164
layoffs and buyouts in 2012, 317–18
London bureau, 94, 99
Miller encounters hostility at (“war on Judy”), 293–98, 356n2
Miller first-person account of grand jury testimony and Times response piece, 288–92, 310–11, 355n17
Miller resignation, legal settlement and terms of agreement, 301, 318, 356n2
Miller’s protection of source legal battle, 245, 250–53, 272, 274, 276, 280, 281, 352n1
mobile germ lab stories, 209–10
Murdoch criticism of, 354–55n14
news editor job at, 56, 94–95
9/11 terrorist attacks coverage, 147, 164, 340n4
Okrent’s column on Times’s flawed journalism, 229–30, 231, 232, 249
Okrent’s position created, 349n5
Paris bureau, 81, 82, 87–91
Pentagon coverage, 163
Pentagon Papers and, 54, 251, 252, 280
policy on first-person accounts, 11, 89
Pulitzers, xi, 54, 149, 170, 186, 226, 298
reporter rules, 137
reporters and high-risk situations, 74, 87
Republican dislike of, 97
rituals of form and content, 57
rules about objectivity, 346n6
salary gap at, 42
size of work force, 42
staff revolt at, 172, 186–87, 191, 193–94
style and standards book, 295
“the surge” and, 19
turf protection at, 94, 163, 164
Washington bureau, 41, 42, 46, 48, 53–58, 91–99, 135, 148, 229 (see also Abramson, Jill)
Watergate and, 54–55, 94
Wilson op-ed, 242
Wilson’s charge of intelligence manipulation reported, 283
WMD intelligence failures investigation, 228–29
women employees, sexism, and discrimination lawsuits, 41–43, 53–54, 60, 93, 93n, 95, 98, 335n1, 335n3
9/11 Commission, 136, 339n1
conclusions of, 145–46
failures within the intelligence community identified, 78–79
9/11 terrorist attacks, 147, 340n4, 340n5
hijackers as middle-class, 77
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed linked to, 136
Moussaoui and, 270
NYPD’s efforts to prevent another attack, 239
Saddam Hussein and, 14
Times’s “Terror and Response” series, 149
US intelligence failures and, 145–46, 149
Nixon, Richard
ends US germ warfare program, 116
Watergate and, 55
North, Oliver, 96
North Korea, 197
Nothing But the Truth (film), 356–57n3
Novak, Robert, 242–43, 244, 282, 283, 304, 305, 309, 350–51n2, 352n6
“Now They Tell Us” (Massing), 221
Obama, Barack, 335n7
Iraq War withdrawal and, 1, 26–27, 322
leak investigations u
nder, 319–21
as secretive and closed administration, 320
Syria and, 322–23
Ochs, Adolph, 55
Ohio State University, 44
Okrent, Daniel, 226, 229–30, 231, 232, 249, 349n5, 349n6, 350n8
Omar, Mullah, 143
O’Neill, John, 147–48, 340n5
Oregonian, 172
Oslo Accords of 1993, 107, 111–12
O’Sullivan, Meghan, 313, 358n11
Pakistan, Bin Laden and, 165
Palestine Hotel, Baghdad, 183
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 69, 72, 110
Oslo Accords, 107, 111–12
Pasechnik, Vladimir, 197
Patrick, Bill, 118–19, 150, 338n2
Payne, Claudia, 193, 265, 285–86
Pear, Robert, 95
Pearlstine, Norman, 263–64, 350–51n2, 352n6
Peres, Shimon, 107
Perez, Anna, 353n4
Perle, Richard, 167
Chalabi and, 153–54, 189, 341n1
Perry, Smadar, 112–13
Perry, Yaakov, 108, 109
Petraeus, David, 18–19, 177, 183–84, 190, 200, 201, 202, 345–46n10
Philadelphia Inquirer, 292, 352n1
Pilchen, Saul, 268, 288
Pillar, Paul, 145–46, 339–40n2
Pincus, Walter, 241, 305, 350–51n2, 352n6
Plame, Valerie, 240, 241, 283, 291–92, 351n1, 353n3, 356n19, 357n6, 357n7
Fitzgerald prosecutions and protection of sources case, 240–46, 250–53, 262–65, 268, 271–77, 279, 280, 282, 284–85, 288–89, 294, 302–6, 308–12, 313, 315–16, 319, 350–51n2, 352n6 (see also Miller, Judith)
Karl Rove and, 263
Libby criminal trial and, 304
memoir by, 306–7, 308, 357n6
source of leak, 304
Pollack, Kenneth, 209
Pomeroy, Eugene, 182, 200, 201
Porter, Tim, 353n6
Pottinger, Stan, 273
Pound, Ed, 56
Powell, Colin, 167, 169, 304
belief in Saddam’s WMD, 211–12
NGIC on aluminum tubes and, 218, 219
“Pottery Barn” meeting on opposition to Iraq War, 168, 211, 342n9
UN speech, 168, 187, 209
Preston, Julia, 208, 228
“Preventive War and Democratic Politics” (Levy), 343n13
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 45, 70, 335n5
Progressive magazine, 4, 43, 47
Miller’s first article in, 45
Purdy, Matt, 148, 346n7
Qaddafi, Mu‘ammar al-, 158
Rabin, Yitzhak, 107, 108, 111
Miller interviews, 108, 109
Oslo Accords, 112
Raines, Howell, 94, 97, 98, 99, 147, 148, 153, 164, 171, 212
Bragg’s ouster and, 344–45n3
criticism aimed at, 225
defense of Iraq stories, 231
Engelberg clashes with, 171–72
firing of, 191, 193, 194, 206, 209, 244, 297, 299, 355–56n18
Miller in Iraq War and, 175, 176, 180, 183, 188
Miller’s WMD reporting and, 190, 206, 349n6, 350n8
Pulitzers won under, 186
staff revolt and, 296
Times plagiarism scandal and, 184, 185–86, 193
Rashbaum, Will, 239
Rattner, Steve, 57–58, 63, 335n7
Reagan, Ronald, 30, 128, 220
Iran-Contra scandal story, 95–96
Lebanon and, 70, 78
Saddam Hussein backed by, 5–6
Times coverage, 95
Reid, Richard, 165
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 286, 292, 321
Reporters Without Borders, 261, 286
Reston, James “Scotty,” 58
Rezayat, Mehdi, 124–25
Rice, Condoleezza, 19, 149, 189, 283, 343n12, 347–48n17, 353n4
botulinum toxin scare, 150
dysfunctional decision-making, 228
interview with Miller and Sanger, 149
WMD aluminum tubes intelligence and, 213, 214
Richards, Charles, 66, 67
Ridi, Essam Al, 358n13
“Right Fight Now, The: Counterinsurgency, Not Caution, Is the Answer in Iraq” (Schmitt), 314
Risen, Jim, 152, 157, 163, 207
Haideri story and, 250
Miller’s collaboration with, 164, 210, 342n1
surveillance technology used on, 321
WMD aluminum tubes stories, 210, 347n10
WMD reporting, 210, 347n10
Risha, Abdul Sattar Abu, 332n17
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC, 148
Rivers, Larry, 90
Rizzo, John A., 250, 312–13, 357n6
Robb, Charles, 218
Robb-Silberman commission, 218, 230, 349–50n7
Robertson, Nan, 41–42, 48, 53, 335n1
Rockefeller, Jay, 284
Rosen, James, 321
Rosenbaum, David, 95
Rosenberg, Howard, 37–38
Rosenthal, Abe M.
Farber jailing and, 351–52n3
Miller and, 56, 76, 81, 82, 86, 87, 89, 171
Miller job interview with, 47–51
rivalry with Max Frankel, 93–94
as ruthless, 186
Safire defense of, 299, 356n1
as Times executive editor, 46, 55
visiting Miller in prison, 266
Rosenthal, Andrew, 190, 202
Rove, Karl, 263, 264, 272, 274, 304, 305, 307, 315, 352n6, 353n4
Rubaie, Mowaffak al-, 23
Rumsfeld, Donald, 167, 174, 177, 228, 314, 347n14
Rush to Judgment (Knott), 343n11
Russert, Tim, 241, 305, 350–51n2, 352n6
Russia
biological weapons program, 115–16, 117, 121–23, 125–28, 197, 338n1
KGB Bonfire and Flute programs, 126
Vector research center, 122–23
Rwanda, 90
Saadi, Amir, 203
Sadat, Anwar el, 74, 76–77
Saddam Hussein
Al Qaeda and, 13, 207, 210, 290–91
anthrax letter attacks linked to, 150, 222
assumption of presidency and bloodbath, 5
betrayal of Middle Eastern rulers, 13
brutality of, 4–5, 7, 8, 16
character of, 14
chemical attack on Halabja, Kurdistan, 16, 90, 156
Clinton’s policy to overthrow, 156
genocide against the Kurds, 15–16, 90, 156, 222, 332n15, 333–34n22
intelligence agencies of, 7
Iran-Iraq War and, 5
killing of Shiittes, 16, 17
King Hussein of Jordan and, 103, 154
left in power after Gulf War, xiii
Miller’s assessment of, 4–5
Miller’s attempts to interview, 8
miscalculations by, 13
9/11 terrorist attacks and, 14
Reagan’s backing of, 5–6
removal of, 26
titles and tyrannical rule of, 7–8
UNSCOM inspections and, 26, 119–20, 121, 133, 134, 155, 160, 165, 168, 181, 196, 203, 211, 338n2, 342n7, 348–49n2
US neocon pressure to overthrow, 150
WMD and, non-US assessments, 211
WMD and chem-bio program, 2, 3–4, 6, 26, 118, 119–20, 129, 133, 181–82, 211, 213, 347–48n17
Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf (Miller and Mylroie), 5, 11, 102, 208
Safire, Bill
Abe Rosenthal and, 299, 356n1
WMD and nuclear program, xii, 3–4, 14, 26, 158, 165, 166, 181, 211, 216–17, 218–19
letter of November 1, 2005 on Miller’s behalf, 299, 300–301
as Miller’s friend and advisor, 97–98, 99, 194, 205, 228, 229, 231, 237, 265–66, 281, 288, 292, 296, 306
Salah, Muhammad Abdel-Hamid, 108, 109
Salih, Barham, 25
Sandakhchiev, Lev,
122–23, 124
Sanger, David, 149, 283, 305, 320, 342n1, 355–56n18
Saqer, Muhammad Jassem al-, 169
Sauber, Richard, 263
Saudi Arabia
coalition forces in, Gulf War, 11–12
culture of, 104–5
Miller as Times “special Gulf correspondent” in, 11, 104–7
Miller pretending to be a Saudi woman in, 83–84
mutawa (religious police), 104–5, 106
Osama bin Laden and, 106, 337n2
siege of the Grand Mosque (1979), 77
Wahhabism in, 12, 105
Savir, Uri, 107
Sawyer, Diane, 117
Schacter, Daniel L., 310
Scheuer, Michael, 340n3
Schmitt, Gary J., 314
Schwarz, Dan, 335n1
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, 12
Scott, Janny, 289
Scowcroft, Brent, 343n15
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 56, 59, 60
Seelye, Kit, 287–88
See No Evil (Baer), 341n3
Senate Intelligence Committee, 314, 351n1
report on Wilson and yellowcake claim, 282, 283
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 230, 349–50n7
Sestanovich, Steve, 311
Sethna, Zaab, 154–55, 159, 160
Sexton, Joe, 186, 193
Shafer, Jack, 229, 349n4, 350n8
Shahristani, Hussein al-, 178, 344n3
Shane, Scott, 151
Sheehan, Mike, 140
Shenon, Phil, 240, 303
Sheraton Hotel, Baghdad, 6–7, 9
Sidell, Frederick R., 179
Siebenlist, Trudy, 32
Silberman, Laurence H., 218
Simon & Shuster, 268, 352n5
60 Minutes, 232
Skadden, Arps attorneys, 271, 316, 318, 356n2
Slate, 229, 349n4, 350n8
Smith, Hedrick “Rick,” 48, 54, 55, 60
Smithson, Amy E., 338n2
Snowden, Edward J., 320
Somalia, 64, 336n1
Specter, Arlen, 262, 264, 293
Spertzel, Richard, 119, 150
Spiridonov, Yuri, 124, 125
Spy magazine, 60
Srebrenica, 90
Stalin, Joseph, 7
Stanage, Niall, 317
Stasi (East German secret police), 15
State of Denial: Bush at War (Woodward), 219
Sterling, Jeffrey, 321
Stewart, Martha, 257
St. George, Utah, 27, 31–32
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 56
Stone, I. F. “Izzy,” 43
Stone, Robin, 193
Strauss, Lewis, 37
Sudan, 66, 82, 144
Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum, 134, 339n5
Bin Laden and, 106, 134
Clinton airstrikes against, 134, 338n3
Sullivan, Margaret, 318
Sulzberger, Arthur Gregg, 317
Sulzberger, Arthur, Jr., 58, 63, 93, 93n, 265, 335n7