Sunday, October 23, 2005

Collegues Demand NYT's Judy Miller's Dismissal

- Judith Miller wanted a restful weekend. Days after her newspaper published a blistering account of her role in the Valerie Plame leak case, The New York Times reporter went home to tony Sag Harbor, N.Y. On the agenda: walks on the beach and playing with her dog. But as she opened up an e-mail last Friday afternoon from Times editor Bill Keller to the paper's employees, all those plans went out the window. Miller, Keller wrote, had "misled" editors about her involvement in a "whispering campaign" against Ambassador Joe Wilson and had perhaps become inappropriately "entangled" with Dick Cheney's chief of staff. The memo, which Miller called "seriously inaccurate," caught her off guard. "I didn't know it was coming," she told NEWSWEEK.

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