Miller on Clarke

Like Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo, I was very concerned to see that the New York Times piece on former US anti-terrorist lead Richard Clarke was written by none other than Judith ("I see WMDs everywhere!" Miller. Like Josh, I'll note that she spends little time reporting on Clarke and much of her space devoted to debunking him.

Miller has extremely unclean hands. She was the main jumper of all the WMD stories, and used Ahmed Chalabi like he was a gospel on the Iraq war. Later, we heard stories about how she interfered with the WMD hunt and got way too cozy with her "embedded" team, to the point where she tried to issue orders. I note that while Miller was a frequent guest as an expert on shows like Lehrer NewsHour in the past, she's been far less visible since the flap hit - and we're talking a lot of coverage in no less an august publication as Editor and Publisher.