Many faces of Judy Miller

Judith Miller, a journalist of mass misinformation


The role of Vice-President Cheney in the “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq lie made us forget about the responsibility of the press for disseminating false news. Judith Miller, a star journalist and writer, added a lot of fuel to the fire in the case against Bin Laden. Not satisfied with blaming him for several attacks in the United States since 1993, she convinced the world that Bin Laden was also responsible for the anthrax attacks. After receiving one of the mysterious letters herself, she said: “I’m the news”. Indeed she was, but she has not told the truth. Judith Miller represents “information laundering”; her scoops in the New York Times come from anonymous sources in Dick Cheney’s circle, and are publicly confirmed by authorities... represented by Dick Cheney.


The issue of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction) is a very illustrative example of the way in which rulers today «communicate war». For this particular case, Washington appointed a public relations officer in charge of «marketing the war». It was former General Motors’ general manager, Andrew Card, who had important political functions under the Reagan Administration.
On September 7, 2002, Card declared to the New York Times that the Bush Administration had prepared what the Times described as a «meticulously planned strategy to persuade the public, the Congress and the allies of the need to confront the threat from Saddam Hussein».
As to the timing of the campaign, Andrew Card explained that discussion on the issue had begun in late August or early September, because «from a marketing point of view you don’t introduce new products in August» [5]. The plan, of course, needed the support of the press. And it will come in the name of Judith Miller.
This New York Times reporter seems to be the scapegoat for the press involved in criticizing US media. A specialist in weapons of mass destruction, she wrote several books on Saddam Hussein or the bacteriological war. In 2002 she shared Pulitzer Prize for her articles on the terrorist Al-Qaeda network. This made her one of the «experts on defense matters» who write articles based on governmental or military sources.
The chronology of the articles she published on weapons of mass destruction follow very closely the White House timetable. On August 26, Dick Cheney begins the campaign in his address at a national veterans convention in which he denounces the existence of a chemical and bacteriological weapons program in Iraq [6].

On September 7, Judith Miller signs with Michael Gordon an article about the famous «aluminum tubes» that were to prove the existence of an Iraqi nuclear program. The article was based on a government source. [7]. That same day, Vice-President Cheney takes part in the NBC Meet the Press program and talks about the aluminum tubes, giving Miller and Gordon’s article the credit for the scoop: «It is public knowledge, that [Saddam Hussein] is trying to acquire» the necessary components «to build a bomb». That same day, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell take up the accusations issue and later on it will be President George W. Bush himself before the United Nations General Assembly.

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