Camp Alderson, West Virginia, 257
Carter, Graydon, 268
Carter, Jimmy, 63
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
anthrax letter attacks and, 151, 152, 165
Bin Laden and, 149
Bin Laden unit (Alec station), 146, 340n3
Chalabi and, 156–57, 175, 189, 213, 232, 341n5
coup of Saddam plan, 156
“Curveball” fraudulent source, 209
faulty intelligence and, 2, 3, 230, 282, 283, 285, 304
FBI relationship with, 146
HUMINT sources and, 182
Iraqi defense contractor defector, Haideri, and, 158, 159, 246–50
Iraqi military intelligence defector, Husayni, and, 182
Iraqi nuclear scientist defector, Hamza, and, 157–58, 159
Iraq’s links to terror and, 163
on Mehdi Rezayat, 124
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s attempt to buy uranium ore and “yellowcake,” 242, 283, 307
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD of 2002, 165, 211, 215, 242, 243, 264–65, 283, 307, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on terrorism, 135
9/11 intelligence failures, 145–46, 149
outing of agents, 351n1, 357n6
PDB (Presidential Daily Brief), 164–65
Plame case and, 282, 306–7, 312–13, 357n6
Soviet biological weapons and, 197, 198
Task Force 20 working with, 182–83
terrorist training in Afghanistan estimates, 140
Voz Island and, 115
WINPAC, 283–84, 309–10
WMD aluminum tubes intelligence, 213, 215, 216–17, 218, 219, 348n18, 349–50n7
WMD in Iraq and, xi–xii, xiii–xiv, 2, 3, 163, 194, 210, 346n2, 347–48n17
yellowcake claim and, 242, 282 (see also Wilson, Joseph C., III)
Ceribelli, Diane, 205, 221
Chalabi, Ahmad, 153–58, 200, 206, 208, 225–26, 228, 317, 350n9
Bush adminstration and, 232
charged with aiding Iran, 232
CIA and, 156–57, 175, 189, 213, 232, 341n5
Iraqi defector al-Haideri and, 154, 246
Iraq insurrection attempted, 156–57, 341n3
Miller joint byline story on, 188–89, 344n2
neocons and, 157, 189, 207, 341n1
reliability of, 233
as scapegoat, 233
75th Exploitation Task Force (XTF) and, 232–33
as target of war’s critics, 232
chemical weapons
Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum and, 134, 339n5
atropine as antidote, 178–79, 344n4
in Iraq, xii, 2, 6, 26, 178, 179, 236, 344n4
mustard gas, xii, 236
Saddam’s attack on the Kurds, 16
sarin nerve agent, xii, 179, 236
VX nerve agent, 134, 179
Cheney, Dick, 13, 214, 306, 311
biological attack concerns, 150
Chalabi and, 189
Gulf War and, 12
Iraq War and overthrow of Saddam decision, 167, 169–70, 212, 312, 342n6
Miller and, 163
neocons and, 341n1
Plame case and, 282, 285, 305, 307, 308, 312, 313, 316
post 9/11 response and, 164–65
Saddam Hussein and, 14–15, 150
“the surge” and, 311, 313
WMD position, 212, 347–48n17
yellowcake claim and, 242, 353n4
Chicago Sun-Times, 242, 350–51n2
Clarke, Richard, 137, 140, 142, 147, 239, 262, 291, 343n12
Clarke, Torie, 174
Clinton, Bill, 271, 291, 311, 335n6
Aspin as Secretary of Defense, 64, 336n1
Iraq bombing, 26
Iraq WMD and, 210
Lewinsky scandal, 131, 134
Miller-Broad interview on biological weapons threat, 131–32, 338n1
Operation Desert Fox, 132, 133–34
Oslo Accords, 112
regime change in Iraq, goal of, 156
retaliatory air strikes, Afghanistan and Khartoum, 134, 338n3, 339n5
Rwanda and, 90
Somalia and, 64
Clinton, Hillary, 19, 43, 166, 335n6, 342n6
CNN, 136, 169
Dobbs interview with Miller, after release, 355n17, 356n3
Saddam’s genocide of the Kurds and, 16
Cohen, Roger, 147, 175, 187, 190, 191, 290, 355n15
Miller’s list of story ideas sent to, 194, 227
Miller’s unanswered emails to, 227
Coll, Steve, 337n2
Colton, Liz, 86
Columbia University, 49, 50, 51
Colvin, Marie, 112–13, 319
Comey, James, 243
Committee to Protect Journalists, 320
Commodore Hotel, Beirut, 69, 73, 86
Company Man (Rizzo), 357n6
Cooper, Matt, 241, 245, 251, 263–64, 273–74, 305, 350–51n2, 352n6, 357n4
Costley, Denise, 269
Cutchin, Ryan, 1–3, 17, 20, 21, 22, 28, 178, 179
Cyprus, 45
Dalglish, Lucy, 286, 321
Daschle, Tom, 151, 222, 348n22
Days of Fire (Baker), 342n9, 343n15
Dean, Gordon, 37
Dearlove, Richard, 350n1
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 15, 156, 159
Chalabi and, 200, 233
INC and, 190
Iraqi defector al-Haideri and, 248
WMD aluminum tubes intelligence, 218
Deseret News, 33–34
Deutch, John, 157
Diamond, Edwin, 335n3
Dionne, E. J., 95
DNO (Norwegian oil company), 333n22
Dobbs, Lou, 355n17, 356n3
Doctors Without Borders, 127
Dodd, Chris, 262
Dodson, Angela, 93n
Dole, Bob, 262
Dowd, Maureen, 95–97, 265, 294–95, 356n20, 356n21
Downwinders, 39
Duelfer, Charles, 228
Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq, 250
as Iraq weapons inspector and UNSCOM commissioner, 4, 26, 119, 134, 343n16, 345n8
as Miller source, 155, 160, 238, 239, 268, 348–49n2
WMD in Iraq search and, 155, 250
WMD report, 235–36, 339n6, 342n16, 344n4
Duffy, Michael, 312
Dwyer, Jim, 249
Editor & Publisher, 318
Egypt
Israel and, 67
jihadist groups in, 149
Miller as Times’s Cairo bureau chief, xi, 5, 65–66, 81–87, 337n3
Miller’s first visit in 1972, 45
Mubarak as president, 13
Mukhabarat (secret police), 74
societal divisions in, 84
Times office in, 65–66
women in, 83
ElBaradei, Mohamed, 220
Ellsberg, Daniel, 280
End of Iraq, The: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Galbraith), 333n22
Endres, Michael, 344n1
Engelberg, Stephen, xi, 98
anthrax letter attacks article, 222, 348n22
biological weapons reporting and, 117, 121
Germs, with Miller and Broad, xi, 117, 122, 172, 174, 208, 223, 342n1, 342n4, 346n3
leaves Times, 171–72, 346n7
Miller in Afghanistan and, 141, 142
Miller’s reporting and, 135, 137, 160
post 9/11 coverage, 164
Pulitzer for Al Qaeda series, 170–71
Epstein, Jason, 220, 311
heart problem, 250–51
home in Sag Harbor, 101, 221, 293
jailing of Miller and, 262, 273, 279–80, 352n7
marriage to Miller, xi, 29, 112–13, 221, 293–94, 336n1
Miller in Iraq War and, 184
New York Review of Books and, 221
Nile cruise with Miller, 103–4
9/11 Commission report and, 339n1
9/11 terrorist attacks and, 147
political views, 29, 220
Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and Miller’s book deal, 101–2
Esposito, John, 110
Explaining the Iraq War (Harvey), 343n11
Fabrikant, Geraldine, 186, 187, 265
Fahadawi, Qasim Mohammad Abed al-, 20–21
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia
Gulf War and, 12–13
interview with Miller and other female reporters, 13
reforms by, 105–6
Fair Game (Plame), 306–7, 308, 357n6
Farber, Myron, 266, 286, 351–52n3, 354n9
Farrell, Bill, 74
Fawwaz, Khaled al-, 136, 137
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Al Qaeda and, 165
anthrax letter attacks and, 152, 223, 342n4
Chalabi leak to Iran and, 233–34
CIA relationship with, 146
lack of intelligence on Hamas, 110
Plame leak investigation and, 243
TWA Flight 800 investigation, 135
WTC bombing of 1993 and, 111
Feith, Douglas, 150, 167, 209, 341n1
Financial Times, 66
Finkielkraut, Alain, 88–89
Finney, John, 42–43, 46–47, 50, 56
Fitzgerald, Patrick J., 315
Cheney as target of, 316
Libby criminal trial and, 302, 304–6, 308, 309, 310, 311–13, 316, 357n7
Miller prosecution and Plame case, 240, 243, 245, 246, 251, 262, 264, 271–77, 294, 315, 350–51n2, 351n1, 352n6
Miller’s testimony before the grand jury, 282–85, 288, 289, 353n6
partisan political pressure and, 313
phone records case, 240, 241, 303–4
as WTC bombing prosecutor, 315, 358n13
Ford, Carl W., Jr., 219, 230, 291, 339–40n2, 349–50n7
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1
Fox News, 318, 321, 345n9
France
anti-Semitism in, 89
Beirut bombing of military compound, 66, 68
Klaus Barbie trial, 88–89
Kuwait bombing of embassy, 75
Miller’s reporting from, 87–91
terrorist bombings in Paris, 88
Frankel, Max, 97
Lelyveld succeeds, 102
Miller promoted by, 93–94
Nevada atomic testing and, 334n9
shake-up at Times Washington bureau and, 98–99
as Times executive editor, 93–94, 334n9
as Times Washington bureau head, 54, 55
Frantz, Doug, 290, 346n7
Franz, Dave, 179
Freeman, George
as Times lawyer, Miller protection of sources case, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 272, 275, 276, 280, 294, 303, 321, 355–56n18
Times termination of, 317–18
Friedman, Tom, 67, 68, 69, 85
Fuad Hussein, 24–25
Galbraith, Peter W., 26, 332n15, 333n22
Gardner, Howard, xiii, 331n1
Gelb, Arthur, 49, 55, 89
Gelb, Les, 61, 347–48n17
Gellman, Bart, 188, 344n1, 353–54n7
Gephardt, Dick, 166
Germ Gambits (Smithson), 338n2
Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War (Miller, Engelberg, and Broad), xi, 117, 122, 172, 174, 208, 223, 342n1, 342n4, 346n3
Emmy award, xi, 223
sources for, 150, 179
Gerth, Jeff, 56, 95, 99, 135–36, 137, 217, 241, 265, 335n6
Ghost Wars (Coll), 337n2
Global Relief Foundation, 303, 304
God Has Ninety-nine Names (Miller), 111, 135, 336n4, 337n3
Golden, Soma, 93n
Gonzales, Richard “Monty,” 3, 174, 180, 181–82, 183, 184, 190–91, 200, 202
Good, David, 75
Goodale, James, 252, 315
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 127
Gordon, Anne, 292–93
Gordon, Michael, 178, 223
WMD aluminum tubes story and, 212–20
Gordon-Hagerty, Lisa, 165
Gore, Al, 166, 210–11
Grass, Günter, 261
Greenhouse, Linda, 95
Greenspun, Hank, 32–33, 35, 334n2
Griffin, Philip, 76
Gulf War (1991), 64
American casualties, 14
Bush ends, 14
Miller as Times “special Gulf correspondent,” 11–14, 102–7
Saddam left in power, xiii, 14–15
Saddam’s chemical weapons and, xii
Gwertzman, Bernard, 47
Haber, Eitan, 112
Haberman, Clyde, 108
Haddad, Yvonne, 110
Hadley, Steve, 211, 355–56n18
Hagel, Chuck, 19
Haideri, Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-, 158–61, 207, 230, 246–50, 341n5
Halperin, Mort, 61
Hamas, 107–11, 128, 149
funding linked to US sources, 108–11
Hamilton, Lee, 19, 311
Hamza, Khidhir Abdul Abas, 157, 159
Handelman, Stephen, 338n1
Hannah, John P., 341n1
Harb, Sheikh Ragheb, 71
Harlow, Bill, 215, 304
Harvey, Derek, 314–15
Harvey, Frank, 168, 343n11
Hashim, Ahmad, 124
Hashimi, Tariq al-, 28
Hatfill, Steve, 342n4
Hedge, Chris, 207
Helms, Laili, 141–44
Hersh, Seymour, 56
Hezbollah, 78, 128, 149
Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq (Duelfer), 250
Hijazi, Ihsan, 69, 70, 73, 78
Hikmat, Fouad, 20
Hiltermann, Joost, 16
Hindawi, Nissar, 203
Hogan, Thomas F., 241, 251, 255, 258, 264, 271, 272, 279–80, 288
Hoge, Warren, 106
Holbrooke, Richard, 61, 336n1
Holocaust, 88–91, 337n6
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, 303, 304
Horrock, Nick, 55–56
Huffington, Arianna, 267–68, 286, 351n4
Huffington Post, 267
Hurt, Harry, III, 261
Husayni, Fadil Abbas al-, 180–84, 190, 230, 235–37, 344n5, 349n6
Hussein, King of Jordan
Miller and, 84
Saddam and, 103, 154
Ibrahim, Saad Eddin, 77
Indian Springs, Nevada, 31
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, 243, 263, 351n1
Iran
American hostages in, 5–6
biological weapons sought by, 123, 124, 197
Islamic Jihad and, 67
Lebanon and, 71–72, 336n3
population of, 5
revolutionary government, 5
Revolutionary Guard, 71
Saddam Hussein and, 3–4
strengthening of, 27
terrorists backed by, 73, 108
terrorist training by, 76, 78
WMD programs, 124–25
Iran-Iraq War
cost to Iraq, 102
Miller covers, 5
Saudi funding, 13
US position of “realist” foreign policy, 5–6
Iraq. See also Iraq War; Saddam Hussein
Abu Ghraib prison, 178
Al Hakam (main germ production facility), 119, 120
Al Qaeda and, 18, 27, 181, 210
Al Qaim, 219
American abandonment of Shiites in, 16–17
Arab nationalism and, 5
Ba’ath Party, 5, 15, 28
biological weapons, 2, 117, 118, 119, 133, 197–98, 338n2
Chalabi and, 154–58
chemical weapons, xii, 2, 6, 26, 178, 179, 236, 344n4
Clinton air strikes against, 26, 132, 133–34
democracy in, goal of, xiii
Erbil, 174–75
fate of, US withdrawal and, 23, 25–26, 28
ISIS i
n, 28
Kurds in, 8, 15–17, 19, 22, 23–25, 26, 28, 90, 156, 157, 174–75, 222, 332n15, 332n16, 333–34n22, 334n24
Lake Habbaniyah, 21
Miller in Baghdad, detention by authorities in 1985, 8–11
Miller in Baghdad, hotel under fire in 1985, 6–7
Miller’s first visit in 1976, 4
Mukhabarat (secret police), 9, 157
no-fly zones established, 16–17, 23–24
nuclear program, xii, 2, 157–58, 159
oil resources, 26
Ramadi, 1, 17–18, 19–20, 28
recovery of secret documents from in 1993, 15
Shia of, 8, 16, 18, 27, 28
Sunnis in, 2, 18, 19, 28, 358n11
UN inspectors in, 133
US Security Agreement and, 27–28
WMD and, 119, 133–34, 155–56, 159, 161, 163, 165, 211, 215, 242, 243, 283, 307, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16
Iraqi National Congress (INC), 155, 156, 159, 161, 208
Baghdad headquarters, 190, 232, 233
CIA and, 175, 213
defectors and, 249
Defense Department and, 190
Erbil meeting, 174–75
media information and, 232
US military and, 189, 190
Iraqi Officers Movement, 213
Iraq Liberation Act (1998), 156
Iraq War, xii. See also US Army
Abu Ghraib prison, 26
Abu Mahal tribe, Al Qaim and, 332n17
American casualties, 17, 18, 25
American misspending in, 22
Anbar Awakening (Sahawa al-Anbar), 18–19, 21, 27, 332n17, 333n18
Anbar Province, 1–2, 17–22, 28, 332n17
Basra, search for WMD at, 3
Bayji, search for WMD at, 3
Britain and, 168, 195–96, 203
Bush administration and decision for invasion, 17, 161, 163, 164, 165–66, 167, 169, 212, 272, 282, 284, 291, 312, 322, 342n6
Camp Ramadi, 1, 2
CFLCC (Coalition Forces Land Component Command), 178
Congressional support, 166, 167, 210, 284, 342n6, 343n11
embedded reporters in, 174, 353–54n7
Fallujah, 28
IED (improvised explosive device), 18
Iraqi allies in, 18–19, 332n17
Iraqi casualties, 25
media faulted for “warmongering,” xiii, xiv, 188–90, 199–202, 205–23, 225–26, 229–31
Miller embedded with the 75th XTF, xi, 1–3, 173–84, 187, 188, 190–91, 200–202, 210, 232–33, 285, 343–44n1, 353–54n7
Miller’s concerns about, 194–95
Miller’s list of story ideas and, 194
MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) transport, 18
neocons and, 154, 167, 168
opponents of, 19, 168, 284, 311, 313, 343n12, 343n15
“realists” and, 167
regime “red line” Al Kut, 178
“the surge,” xiii, 19, 25, 27, 311, 313–15, 333n18, 358n11
undermining of faith in the press and, 323
US costs, 25
US misspending in, 22, 333n20
US mistakes, 22, 27
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