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NYT Editor Stopped Miller From Covering Iraq & WMDs

HeadlineOct 17, 2005

The New York Times coverage reveals there has been wide discontent at the paper about its handling of the story and about Miller’s reporting in general. When asked what she regretted about the newspaper’s handling of the Miller matter, managing editor Jill Abramson said “The entire thing.” Meanwhile the Times reveals that in 2003 the paper’s executive editor Bill Keller told Miller she could no longer cover Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Miller had written several of the key articles that claimed Iraq had an extensive weapons of mass destruction program ahead of the Iraq invasion. Miller even wrote “W.M.D. — I got it totally wrong. The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong. If your sources are wrong, you are wrong.”

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