Jon Stewart Grills Judith Miller On Iraq War Reporting

You’d think Judith Miller -- the disgraced New York Times reporter who helped rally the country into a $2 trillion, 10-year war -- would do us a favor and slink into obscurity. Alas, Miller is hawking a new book, and using the opportunity to try to salvage her reputation. On Wednesday night, she stopped by "The Daily Show," where Jon Stewart gave her the sort of grilling she should be receiving on the mainstream news circuit.

“I believe that you helped the administration take us to, like, the most devastating mistake in foreign policy that we’ve made in, like, 100 years,” Stewart began. “But you seem lovely.”

In the adversarial interview, the former Times reporter shirked responsibility for her role in leading the country into war, saying that all journalists had been misled by the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Her sources in the intelligence community, Miller said, had never been wrong before.

“That’s why I wrote the book. I hoped that people like you would read it and determine that it was really, really hard to do this kind of reporting,” said Miller, whose book, The Story: A Reporter’s Journey, was released earlier this month.

“I wasn’t alone, I had lots and lots of company. The intelligent sources we were talking to had never been wrong before,” Miller added.

Miller denied that either Dick Cheney or George W. Bush were the sole sources for the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. “The information came from the men and women who had steered me right on Al Qaeda and 9/11, who had told me that the former Soviet Union had a huge cache of biological weapons,” she said.

Among the highlights of the interview, Stewart cornered Miller over whether she had been used by the Bush administration to create a pretext for going to war:


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