Abe Rosenthal and, 299, 356n1
Blair plagiarism scandal and, 185–86
blogs and, 317
defense of Miller’s WMD reporting, 226–27
firing of Jill Abramson, 320
legal battle over protecting Miller’s source, 245, 251–53, 265, 266, 274, 276–77, 279–80, 281, 290
legal settlement and terms of agreement, “war on Judy” and Miller resignation, 301, 318
Miller in Iraq War and, 175
Miller’s return to the Times after jailing and, 293–98
Pulitzers and, 171
Safire’s proposal to on “Miller Mess,” 300–301
“war on Judy” at the Times and, 294–95
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs “Punch,” 42, 99, 171, 299, 351–52n3, 356n1
Sulzberger, Carol, 99
Syria
ISIS in, 28–29, 322
Lebanon and, 69–70, 78
Obama’s policiies and, 322
terrorists backed by, 69, 73
Tagliabue, John, 151, 207
Taha, Ribab “Dr. Germ,” 120, 203, 204
Tamimi, Taissir Rajab Al-, 270
Task Force 20 (Special Operations), 182–83, 184, 285, 345n7, 353–54n7
Tate, Joseph A., 245–46, 264, 272, 274, 275, 287, 316
Taubman, Philip, 58, 229, 291–92, 294, 301
Tavernise, Sabrina, 209
Temby, Dave, 3
Tenet, George
Bin Laden and, 165
Chalabi and, 232
leaks and, 313
PDBs and, 165
“war” on Al Qaeda, 146
WMD aluminum tubes intelligence and, 218
WMD search and, 204, 347–48n17
Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (Pillar), 339–40n2
Time magazine, 241, 245, 251, 263–64, 350–51n2
Times Books, 102
Tobey, Will, 211
Toensing, Victoria, 351n1
Truman, Harry, 33, 35
Truman, Preston J., 39
Turkey, 16, 24
TWA Flight 800, 135
Tyler, Pat, 151, 207
United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), 109–10
United Nations
International Atomic Energy Agency, 157
Iraq nuclear program and, 3–4
Iraq War coalition and, 168
Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), 134, 339n6
peacekeeping force in Lebanon, 66, 69, 70
Powell speech, 168
report on Iraq WMD, 2, 331n1
Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait and, 11–12
Saddam’s violation of pledges to, xii, 26, 342n7
Special Commission (UNSCOM), 119, 120, 121, 133, 134, 155, 165, 196, 203, 211, 338n2, 342n16
University of Brussels, 50
Urban, Amanda, 268
US Army
embedded reporters and, 174, 353–54n7
First Brigade, Eighty-Second Airborne Division, 17, 21
al-Husayni and, 235
Iraq Survey Group (see US Iraq Survey Group)
Medical Institute of Chemical Defense, 179
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, 115–16, 118, 119, 179
MET Alpha (WMD search team), 3, 173–74, 180, 181, 182–83, 184, 188, 190, 194, 200–201, 202, 232, 233, 235, 236, 248, 344–45n10, 344n5
Miller as embedded journalist, rules and, 174, 176, 187, 343–44n1, 353–54n7
National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), 218
75th Exploitation Task Force (XTF), 1–3, 4, 173–84, 232–33, 285, 345n8
Task Force 20 (Special Operations), 182–83, 184, 285, 345n7, 353–54n7
vaccination of solidiers, 117, 198
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
civilian exposure to radioactivity, 31–39
civilian lawsuits against, 35, 37, 38
“Dirty Harry” bomb test, 32, 36
Finney’s investigations of, 46
Freedom of Information Act disclosures, 38
Nevada Test Site, 34, 36, 38
nuclear bomb testing, Nevada, 31–39
Operation Upshot-Knothole, 36–37
public relations campaigns and lies about radiation risks, 33–35, 37
US nuclear arsenal and, 34
US Defense Department (Pentagon)
Chalabi and, 190, 228
Iraqi military intelligence defector Abbas al-Husani and, 182
Powell and, 228
Washington Post complaints about Times given preference in Iraq War reporting, 188
WMD suspect site list, 3, 190, 200, 203
US Iraq Survey Group (ISG), 3, 196, 248, 344n4, 345n8. See also Duelfer, Charles
Duelfer’s report, 236, 344n4
US Marine Corp
Beirut bombing of US Marine compound, 66–69
USS Cole, 147–48
US State Department, 230, 235–36, 304, 349–50n7
Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), 215, 347n16, 355n16
Chalabi and, 156, 175, 188–89
counterterrorism office, 140
Plame’s cover and, 307, 308, 357n7
Rumsfeld and, 228
Saudi financing of militant groups ignored by, 146
Uzbekistan, 115
Vanity Fair, 268
Van Natta, Don, Jr., 289–92, 354–55n14, 355–56n18, 355n17
Vector, Koltsovo, Siberia, 122–23
Veil, Simone, 88
Vietnam War, 44
antiwar movement, 48–49, 50, 56
My Lai massacre story, 56
Resist, 50–51
Vitale, Alberto, 102
Vozrozhdeniye (Voz Island), 115–16, 125–28
Wade, Betsy, 53–54
Wag the Dog (film), 132, 338n3
Wall Street Journal, 102, 317–18
Walters, Barbara, 355n17, 356n3
Walton, Reggie B., 305, 308
Washington Post
Barringer at, 58
Gellman embed and, 188, 344n1
Keller’s “memo to the staff” and, 300
Kurtz attacks on Miller in, 188–90, 199–202, 286
Massing’s criticism and, 222
Miller’s articles in, 43, 46
Miller’s emails leaked to, 289
Pincus testimony at Libby trial, 305
Schmitt article in, 314
Valerie Plame leak and, 241
Watergate and, 54–55, 94
Wasserman, Steve, 102
Weapons Detective, The (Barton), 345n8
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 338n2. See also biological weapons; chemical weapons
aluminum tubes intelligence, 212–20, 348n18, 349–50n7
attack concerns, 178–79
Bush administration motivation for war and, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 242, 264–65, 267, 272, 282, 284, 291, 312, 322, 339–40n2, 350n1
credibility gap, 358–59n17
intelligence failures, 217, 230, 285, 290–91, 304, 349–50n7
Iraq and, xii, 26, 119, 119–20, 133–34, 155–56, 159, 161, 163, 165, 196–97, 211, 215, 242, 243, 283, 307, 338n2, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16
ISG and, 3, 196, 236, 248, 344n4, 345n8
MET Alpha (WMD search team), 3, 173–74, 180, 181, 182–83, 184, 188, 190, 194, 200–201, 202, 232, 233, 235, 236, 248, 344–45n10, 344n5
Miller attacked for reporting on, xii–xiii, 187–88, 189, 199–200, 205–12, 228, 229, 349n4, 349n6, 350n8
Miller criticisms, correcting the record, 205–23, 226–29, 346n4, 346n7
Miller’s reporting on, 4, 119, 151, 152, 154–55, 163, 164, 180, 183, 187, 189–90, 194–95, 199, 225–26, 228–29, 323
mobile biolabs intelligence, 187, 209, 346n8
NIE’s findings on of 2002, 165, 211, 215, 242, 243, 264–65, 283, 307, 342n6, 347–48n17, 355n16
Okrent’s Times column criticizing reporting on, 226, 229–30, 231, 349n5, 349n6, 350n8
search for, xi–xii, x
iii, 1–3, 173–84, 187, 194, 196, 203–4, 210–11, 345–46n10, 345n7, 345n8, 347n14
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation and, 230, 349–50n7
Times editor’s note, “The Times and Iraq,” on prewar Iraq reporting, 205, 225–26, 228–29, 230, 347n10, 349n4, 350n8
yellowcake claim and, 242, 282, 350n1
Weber, Andy, 121, 122, 123, 128
Weinberger, Caspar, 78
Weinraub, Bernard, 95
Weisman, Steve, 58
Weiss, Murray, 340n5
West, Francis “Bing,” 26
Whitney, Craig, 93, 95, 96, 97
shake-up at Washington bureau and, 98–99
Why Intelligence Fails (Jervis), 218, 346n2, 348n18
WikiLeaks, 320, 321
Wilkerson, Lawrence, 211
Wilkinson, Jim, 191
Wilson, Joseph C., III, 240, 241, 242, 244, 263, 282, 283, 284–85, 307, 308, 312, 351n1, 353n3, 353n4
Wisner, Frank, 61, 103
Wolf, Lewis, 351n1
Wolfowitz, Paul, 150, 167, 169, 174, 189, 209, 314, 341n1
Woodward, Bob, 54–55, 219, 241, 304, 309, 352n6
Woolsey, Jim, 151
World Trade Center bombing of 1993, 111, 136
arrest of Ramzi Yousef, 147
Fitzgerald as prosecutor, 315, 358n13
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed linked to, 136
W. W. Norton publisher, 339n1
Ya’ari, Ehud, 108
Yemen
attack on USS Cole, 147–48
Bin Laden’s father and, 106
jihadists from, 139–40
Miller’s interview with president of, 103
Yousef, Ramzi, 136, 147
Youssef, Ahmed (Abu Ahmed), 110
Zelikow, Philip, 339n1, 343n13
Ziegler, Ron, 55
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