Judith Miller, Go Away

The BBC reports today in anticipation of the airing of an interview with Miller tonight, that although she is "sorry" that the WMD information turned out to be wrong, she wasn't sorry for publishing it. Furthermore, she defends Scooter Libby.

She claims Mr Libby did not out Ms Plame as a covert agent, but as someone who worked for the CIA. Ms Miller said she assumed that Ms Plame was an analyst, not an operative.

She defends President Bush saying:

"I'm deeply sorry our intelligence community got it wrong. I am deeply sorry that the President was given a national intelligence estimate which concluded that Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and a active weapons programme."

For Judith Miller to still be defending her decision to print information directly from the White House (although she claimed to check her facts and note doubts where they were voiced), the NY Times had to apologize for six stories, 4 of which were written by Miller. Maybe 85 days in jail wasn't enough!