Using the 15 minute rule, how many minutes does Judy Miller have left? [View All]

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In response to Maureen Dowd’s explosive Times column, titled “Woman of Mass Destruction” in which Dowd wrote that she “always liked Miller” but that Miller should have been kept on a “tight editorial leash,” the now former award-winning reporter shot back at Dowd, claiming that the column was full of holes.

Dear Maureen, I’m glad you always liked me. But in the interests of journalistic accuracy at a very sensitive time for The Times and for me, I wish you had checked some of these damaging assertions about me before you printed them. If you had, there are seven specific mistakes you could have avoided. As important, you could have avoided creating a false and damaging impression that I had tried to cover up for a crime, or that I had convenient memory lapses at the behest of the administration.

Miller also scooped the Times by posting her farewell column on her website before it appeared in the Times’ Thursday editions, where it is scheduled to run in the 'Letters to the Editor' section instead of the Op Ed page which Miller originally demanded. Miller said she intends to continue lobbying for a federal shield law for reporters, and plans to keep writing about the subject for which she received an unprecedented amount of criticism.

“In my future writing, I intend to call attention to the internal and external threats to our country’s freedoms – Al Qaeda and other forms of religious extremism, conventional and W.M.D. terrorism, and growing government secrecy in the name of national security – subjects that have long defined my work,” she said.

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