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7
. My belated discovery of the importance of my notation of “Bureau” explained something that puzzled me during the defense's cross-examination of me on the stand in 2007. Libby's lawyers kept asking me whether other agencies, such as the State Department, had “bureaus” rather than “offices” or “divisions” or “directorates.” But since neither they nor I knew that Plame had used the State Department as cover for her CIA work, the questions seemed odd, and their intention, at least to me, unclear.

8
. Stan Crock, “
Fair Game
Glamorizes Distortions and Perpetuates Myths,”
World Affairs
, November 8, 2010, p. 4;
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/fair-game-glamorizes-distortions-and-perpetuates-myths
.

9
. Rizzo,
Company Man
, pp. 206–7.

10
. Dick Cheney, interview, January 2014.

11
. O'Sullivan, who worked at the State Department before being sent to Iraq soon after the invasion in 2003, argues that “there was no Sunni partner” willing to work with US forces to oppose Al Qaeda until 2006. Until then, she said, the US military's top brass was convinced that the occupation of Iraq by US forces was the root cause of the insurgency, rather than Sunni bitterness over having lost control of the state they had controlled until Saddam's ouster.

12
. Thomas Donnelly and Gary J. Schmitt, “The Right Fight Now: Counterinsurgency, Not Caution, Is the Answer in Iraq,”
Washington Post
, October 26, 2003,
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/409635877.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+26%2C+2003&author=Tom+Donnelly+and+Gary+Schmitt&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=&dese=The+Right+Fight+Now%3B+Counterinsurgency%2C+Not+Caution%2C+Is+the+Answer+in+Iraq
.

13
. Judith Miller, “A Witness Against Al Qaeda Says the U.S. Let Him Down,”
New York Times
, June 3, 2002,
www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/a-witness-against-al-qaeda-says-the-us-let-him-down.html
. Despite my admiration of Fitzgerald's vigorous prosecution of terrorists in the first World Trade Center bombing, I was one of the few journalists to write critically about his mistreatment of Essam Al Ridi, an Egyptian pilot who helped him convict Bin Laden's personal secretary. Al Ridi told me, and an FBI agent quoted in my article agreed, that once Al Ridi's usefulness as a witness ended, Fitzgerald did not honor promises he had made that he would not be penalized in the United States or mistreated in his native Egypt.

14
. “Innovation, A
New York Times
internal report,” March 24, 2004,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/224332847/NYT-Innovation-Report-2014
.

15
. Leonard Downie, Jr.,
The Obama Administration and the Press
(New York: Committee to Protect Journalists, October 10, 2013),
http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php
.

16
. The news of Abramson's firing stunned the media but generated little interest among readers, even at the
Times.
The front-page article about the dismissal of the first female head of the nation's leading newspaper was only the tenth most emailed story of the day—behind a story entitled “Steak That Sizzles on the Stovetop” and Frank Bruni's column, “Read, Kids, Read.” BuzzFeed's Kate Aurthur, a former
Times
employee, wrote that Abramson “got fired with less dignity than Judith Miller, who practically started the Iraq War.”

17
. By late 2005, according to a Pew poll, 43 percent of Americans thought that America's
and Britain's leaders were “mostly lying” when they claimed that Iraq had WMD before the war.

18
. “As New Dangers Loom, More Think the U.S. Does ‘Too Little' to Solve World Problems,” Pew Research Center, August 28, 2014,
www.people-press.org/2014/08/28/as-new-dangers-loom-more-think-the-u-s-does-too-little-to-solve-world-problems
.

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Abdullah, Prince of Saudi Arabia,
106

Abrams, Floyd,
245
,
251
,
263
,
264
,
271
,
274
,
275
,
276
,
280
,
287
,
303
,
356
–57n3

Abramson, Jill,
54
,
212
,
356
n20

Chalabi and,
232

Dowd as close friend,
265
,
294
,
356
n20

firing of,
320
,
358
n16

Miller in Iraq War and,
175
,
194

Miller's jailing and,
265

Miller's return to the
Times
after jail and “war on Judy,”
286
,
287
,
288
–89,
290
,
301

Miller's sources and,
235

Miller's stories restricted by,
237
–38,
239

Miller's WMD reporting and,
205
–12,
219
,
228
,
346
n7

on Obama's White House,
320

Plame leak and,
244
,
309

“The
Times
and Iraq” editor's note and,
205
,
225
–26,
230
,
347
n10,
348
–49n2

as Washington bureau chief,
148
,
175
,
209
,
291
–92,
296
,
355
–56n18

Abu Sayyaf,
149

Achille Lauro,
88

Afghanistan

Abu Khabab camp,
140
,
142
,
143
–44

Bin Laden in,
139
,
141

biological weapons lab in,
132

Faizabad,
140

Miller interviews Massoud and jihadists,
138
–39

Miller visits with Laili Helms, Taliban interviews,
141
–44

Taliban in,
138
,
141
–44,
169

terrorist training camps in,
134
,
141
,
146

US misspending in,
22
,
333
n20

US war in,
169

Against All Enemies
(Clarke),
343
n12

Agee, Philip,
351
n1

Aghion, Anne,
87

Ajami, Fouad,
112

Albright, David,
157

Iraq's efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb and,
219

WMD aluminum tubes intelligence and,
213
–14,
215
,
216
,
217
,
220

Alexandria Detention Center (ADC),
255
–62,
265
–71,
279
,
292

Alibek, Ken (Kanatjan Alibekov),
117
–18,
121
,
126
,
129
,
338
n1

All-Russian Institute of Phytopathology, Golitsino, Russia,
124

Almodóvar, Pedro,
261

Al Qaeda

Bin Laden founds and funds,
137

black flag of,
18

Bush war on terror and,
148
–49

chemical and biological weapons programs,
134
,
146

Iraq and,
18
,
27
,
181
,
210
,
332
n17

jihad against the West,
146

London bombings of 2005,
259
,
265

Miller's investigation and stories,
xi
,
135
–36,
137
,
170
–71,
226

9/11 terrorist attacks,
147

Reid shoe bombing attempt,
165

Saddam Hussein and,
13
,
207
,
290
–91

spread of,
322

US embassy bombings, Kenya and Tanzania,
132
,
134
,
140
,
146

US response to 9/11 and,
164
–65

American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem,
73

America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
123

Ames, Aldrich,
351
n1,
357
n6

Ani, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-,
152

Anson, Robert Sam,
261
–62

anthrax letter attacks,
165
,
342
n4

early theories about Iraqi link,
150
,
152
,
222

intelligence community and,
165

Miller-Engelberg article on,
222
–23,
348
n22

US source of spores,
151

Anton, Michael,
165

Apple, R. W., Jr. “Johnny,”
95
,
97
,
98
,
99

Gulf War coverage,
104

Arab nationalism,
5

Arafat, Yasser,
107
,
110

Oslo Accords and,
112

Aral Sea,
115
,
116
,
127

Armitage, Richard,
304
,
352
n6

Arnold, Martin,
355
n15

Arrows of the Night
(Bonin),
156
,
341
n1,
341
n3,
350
n9

Ascari, Ismail,
336
n3

Ashcroft, John,
243

Aspen Strategy Group,
62
–63

Aspin, Les,
47
,
48
,
60
–64,
103
,
336
n1

Assad, Hafiz al-,
69

Atomic Soldiers
(Rosenberg),
37
–38

Atta, Mohamed

middle-class background,
77

in Prague,
151
–52,
207

Aurthur, Kate,
358
n16

Ayres, B. Drummond, Jr.,
95

Aziz, Tariq,
134

Baer, Robert,
341
n3

Baker, James A., III,
12
,
19
,
107
,
311
,
343
n15

Baker, Peter,
165
,
315
–16,
342
n9

Baquet, Dean,
135

Baranger, Walt,
286

Barnard College,
44
,
50

Miller commencement speech,
194
–95

Barringer, Felicity,
58

Barstow, David,
148
,
217
,
265
,
286
,
289
,
293
,
316
–17,
356
n19

Barton, Rod,
120
,
345
n8

Barzani, Massoud,
24

Bashir, Omar al-,
134

Beckinsale, Kate,
356
–57n3

Beers, Rand,
343
n12

Behind the Times
(Diamond),
335
n3

Bennett, Bob

Keller-Abramson order to Miller for a first-person account of grand jury testimony and,
288
,
289
,
290

Miller's grand jury testimony and,
280
,
281
,
285

Miller's protection of sources case and,
263
,
264
,
268
,
271
–73,
274
,
275
,
276
,
279
,
294
,
355
n17

Miller's resignation and legal settlement,
294
,
295
,
296
,
297
,
321

Berenson, Alex,
186

Bergen, Peter,
136

Bergman, Lowell,
293
,
356
n19

Bernstein, Carl,
54
–55

Bernstein, Richard,
81
,
87

Biden, Joe,
19
,
166

Binder, David,
57
,
95

Bin Laden, Osama,
132

in Afghanistan,
139
,
141

Al Qaeda begun by,
137

Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum, and,
134

escape from Tora Bora,
149

fatwa declaring war on America,
137
,
147

interview with Bergen,
136

interview with John Miller,
137
–38

killing of,
322

Miller declines interview,
136
–38

Miller's early coverage of,
xi
,
135
–36,
226

9/11 terrorist attacks,
147

Saudi Arabia ejects,
106
,
337
n2

as terrorist financier,
136

training camps run by,
140
,
142

US efforts to kill,
149

US intelligence community and,
135

WMD and,
132
,
165

Biohazard
(Alibek and Handelman),
338
n1

biological weapons,
115
–28

Al Hakam, Iraq,
119
,
120

anthrax,
2
,
115
,
116
,
119
,
121
–22,
127
,
132
,
165