Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, whose stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were proven wrong after the U.S. invasion, is joining Fox News as a pundit on national security issues.
Miller said she had agreed to be an on-air commentator and also write for the network’s web site, but would not join Fox’s news operation.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, Miller reported on the Bush administration’s allegations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Some of those stories were later cited by a Times editor in a mea culpa about the paper’s flawed coverage of the Bush administration’s rationale for the war.
Miller left the paper in 2005 after testifying in the trial of former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby that he had leaked her information about CIA operative Valerie Plame, although she had never written the story. Miller had initially refused to testify in the case, which led to her serving 85 days in jail.
After leaving the Times, Miller wrote that she had become “a lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war.”
Now a fellow for the conservative Manhattan Institute, Miller described herself to Politico as a “political independent” who had backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and then migrated to the candidacy of Barack Obama.
She asserted that Fox wasn’t looking for a particular ideological perspective on national security.
“They didn’t ask me what I was going to say, or whether I was going to fit a mold,” she said. “I think they want me to be independent, and that’s what I am.”
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