The Story

  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

  “A Nation Challenged” series, 153

  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