The Story (55 page)

anthrax letter attacks,
150
–52,
165
,
222
–23,
342
n4,
348
n22

Bin Laden and,
132

Biopreparat,
117

botulinum toxin,
2
,
119
,
133
,
150

danger of rogue groups acquiring,
128

Germs
(Miller, Engelberg, and Broad),
xi
,
117
,
122
,
172
,
174
,
208
,
223
,
342
n1,
342
n4,
346
n3

Iranian attempts to acquire,
123
,
124
–25

Iraqi germ bombs,
133

Kelly as expert on,
195
–99

lethal pathogens, miscellaneous types,
123
,
129

Saddam's program,
xii
,
26
,
119
–20,
133
–34,
196
–97

smallpox,
116
,
123
,
127
,
197
,
198
–99

Soviet program,
115
–16,
117
,
121
–22,
197

Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan,
121
–22

treaty banning,
116

vaccination of Bush and Cheney,
150

vaccination of Miller,
175

vaccination of US military,
117
,
198

Vector research center, Siberia,
122
–23

Voz Island, Aral Sea,
115
–16,
125
–28

White House botulinum false alarm,
150
,
165

Blair, Jayson,
184
,
185
–86,
193
,
288
,
317
,
349
n5

Blair, Tony,
168
,
195
–96,
209

Bleifuss, Joel,
349
n4

Blix, Hans,
209
,
211

Miller interview,
208
,
227
,
228

Blundy, David,
8
–11,
86

Bojinka plot,
136

Bolton, John,
262

Bonin, Rich,
156
,
157
,
232
,
341
n1,
341
n3,
350
n9

Boulenouar, Tewfik,
2

Boyd, Gerald,
95
,
147
,
148
,
164
,
169
,
172

firing of,
191
,
193
,
194
,
206
,
209
,
244
,
297
,
299

Miller in Iraq War and,
175
,
180
,
183
,
184
,
187
,
188
,
190
,
200
–201,
209
,
236

Miller's WMD reporting and,
190
,
206
,
345
n7,
349
n6,
350
n8

Times
plagiarism scandal and,
184
,
185
–86

Times
staff revolt and,
185
–86,
187
,
193
–94,
296

Bradlee, Ben,
54
–55

Bragg, Rick,
344
–45n3

Braun, Carol Moseley,
259

Bremer, L. Paul (Jerry), III,
22
,
194
,
314

Brisbane, Arthur,
354
–55n14

Britain

credibility gap,
358
–59n17

Iraq War and,
168
,
195
–96,
203
,
209

London bombings of 2005,
259
,
265

yellowcake claim and,
242
,
282
,
350
n1,
353
n4

Broad, William,
xi

aluminum tube misinformation article,
217

anthrax letter attacks article,
152
,
348
n22

biological weapons reporting, with Miller,
116

Clinton interview, with Miller,
131
–32,
133
,
338
n1

defectors as source,
118

Germs,
with Miller and Engelberg,
xi
,
117
,
122
,
172
,
174
,
208
,
223
,
342
n1,
342
n4,
346
n3

Iraq mobile germ lab stories,
209
–10,
346
n8,
347
n9

Miller's collaboration with,
342
n1

as
Times
science reporter,
116

UNSCOM's search for Iraq's WMD article, with Miller,
196

WMD reporting,
210

Brooks, James,
248

Buckley, Susan,
271

Burnham, David,
55

Burns, John,
183
,
188
,
200
,
202

Bush, George H. W.,
64

Gulf War and,
12
,
14
,
102

Iraq no-fly zone and,
16
–17,
23
–24

Saddam Hussein and,
167

Bush, George W.

anthrax letter attacks and,
150
,
165
,
342
n4

biological weapon threat and,
198

Iraq War and overthrow of Saddam decision,
17
,
161
,
163
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
167
,
169
,
272
,
282
,
284
,
291
,
312
,
322
,
339
–40n2,
342
n6

Iraq War mistakes,
22

Iraq War withdrawal and,
1

Libby's sentence commuted by,
305
–6,
357
n5

neocons and,
154
,
167

nuclear 9/11 fears,
165
,
166

PDB (Presidential Daily Brief),
164
–65

post 9/11 response,
164
–65

“preventive war” strategy,
168
,
343
n13

Saddam Hussein and,
13
–14

State of the Union address (2002),
169

State of the Union address (2003),
211
,
242
,
282
,
283

State of the Union address (2003), retraction of “sixteen words,”
242
,
353
n4,
355
–56n18,
356
n19

State of the Union address (2004),
232

“the surge” and,
19
,
311
,
315

vaccinations given to,
150

war on terror,
148
–49

West Point address of June, 2002,
166
,
170

WMD and,
13
–14,
155
,
161
,
164
,
165
,
184
,
219
,
242
,
264
–65,
344
n5,
347
–48n17

yellowcake claim and,
242
,
282
,
350
n1,
353
n4

Butler, Richard,
151
,
160

BuzzFeed,
358
n16

Byers, Steve,
261
–62

Byrne, Brendan T.,
351
–52n3

Cacheris, Plato,
234
–35

Calame, Byron,
295
,
301

Camp Alderson, West Virginia,
257

Carter, Graydon,
268

Carter, Jimmy,
63

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

anthrax letter attacks and,
151
,
152
,
165

Bin Laden and,
149

Bin Laden unit (Alec station),
146
,
340
n3

Chalabi and,
156
–57,
175
,
189
,
213
,
232
,
341
n5

coup of Saddam plan,
156

“Curveball” fraudulent source,
209

faulty intelligence and,
2
,
3
,
230
,
282
,
283
,
285
,
304

FBI relationship with,
146

HUMINT sources and,
182

Iraqi defense contractor defector, Haideri, and,
158
,
159
,
246
–50

Iraqi military intelligence defector, Husayni, and,
182

Iraqi nuclear scientist defector, Hamza, and,
157
–58,
159

Iraq's links to terror and,
163

on Mehdi Rezayat,
124

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's attempt to buy uranium ore and “yellowcake,”
242
,
283
,
307

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's WMD of 2002,
165
,
211
,
215
,
242
,
243
,
264
–65,
283
,
307
,
342
n6,
347
–48n17,
355
n16

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on terrorism,
135

9/11 intelligence failures,
145
–46,
149

outing of agents,
351
n1,
357
n6

PDB (Presidential Daily Brief),
164
–65

Plame case and,
282
,
306
–7,
312
–13,
357
n6

Soviet biological weapons and,
197
,
198

Task Force
20
working with,
182
–83

terrorist training in Afghanistan estimates,
140

Voz Island and,
115

WINPAC,
283
–84,
309
–10

WMD aluminum tubes intelligence,
213
,
215
,
216
–17,
218
,
219
,
348
n18,
349
–50n7

WMD in Iraq and,
xi
–xii,
xiii
–xiv,
2
,
3
,
163
,
194
,
210
,
346
n2,
347
–48n17

yellowcake claim and,
242
,
282
(see also
Wilson, Joseph C., III)

Ceribelli, Diane,
205
,
221

Chalabi, Ahmad,
153
–58,
200
,
206
,
208
,
225
–26,
228
,
317
,
350
n9

Bush adminstration and,
232

charged with aiding Iran,
232

CIA and,
156
–57,
175
,
189
,
213
,
232
,
341
n5

Iraqi defector al-Haideri and,
154
,
246

Iraq insurrection attempted,
156
–57,
341
n3

Miller joint byline story on,
188
–89,
344
n2

neocons and,
157
,
189
,
207
,
341
n1

reliability of,
233

as scapegoat,
233

75th Exploitation Task Force (XTF) and,
232
–33

as target of war's critics,
232

chemical weapons

Al Shifa pharmaceutical company, Khartoum and,
134
,
339
n5

atropine as antidote,
178
–79,
344
n4

in Iraq,
xii
,
2
,
6
,
26
,
178
,
179
,
236
,
344
n4

mustard gas,
xii
,
236

Saddam's attack on the Kurds,
16

sarin nerve agent,
xii
,
179
,
236

VX nerve agent,
134
,
179

Cheney, Dick,
13
,
214
,
306
,
311

biological attack concerns,
150

Chalabi and,
189

Gulf War and,
12

Iraq War and overthrow of Saddam decision,
167
,
169
–70,
212
,
312
,
342
n6

Miller and,
163

neocons and,
341
n1

Plame case and,
282
,
285
,
305
,
307
,
308
,
312
,
313
,
316

post 9/11 response and,
164
–65

Saddam Hussein and,
14
–15,
150

“the surge” and,
311
,
313

WMD position,
212
,
347
–48n17

yellowcake claim and,
242
,
353
n4

Chicago Sun-Times,
242
,
350
–51n2

Clarke, Richard,
137
,
140
,
142
,
147
,
239
,
262
,
291
,
343
n12

Clarke, Torie,
174

Clinton, Bill,
271
,
291
,
311
,
335
n6

Aspin as Secretary of Defense,
64
,
336
n1

Iraq bombing,
26

Iraq WMD and,
210

Lewinsky scandal,
131
,
134