Judith Miller Joins Fox News, Fox Says "She Has A Very Impressive Resume"

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports that disgraced New York Times reporter Judith Miller will be joining Fox News, in an announcement expected to be made today:

Fox News is expected to announce today the hiring of a new contributor, a veteran national security correspondent who has shared a Pulitzer Prize.

Miller will be an on-air analyst and will write for Fox's Web site. "She has a very impressive resume," says Senior Vice President John Moody. "We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped. It's certainly something she's going to be associated with for all time, and there's not much anyone can do about that, but we want to make use of the tremendous expertise she brings on a lot of other issues. . . . She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for."

Recently, Miller has written for Reader's Digest and taken a job with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative thinktank.

Update: Politico's Michael Calderone reports that Miller has come out as a supporter of Barack Obama, a move bound to surprise many who found her complicit in the run-up to war as a mouthpiece for the Republican administration:

Now that former New York Times reporter Judy Miller is joining Fox News as an on-air analyst, she's feeling liberated for the first time to share her political opinion.

"I was a Hillary supporter who has gone over to the Obama side," Miller told Politico earlier by phone. "Lots of people think they know what I believe, but don't."

Miller said she has "very firm views on national security" and has been free to write about such matters in recent opinion pieces, but "has always been very personal and private about [her] political views."

Miller also told Politico she was unapologetic for her reporting.

"I think everyone regrets the intelligence was not right, but I did the best that I could," she said.

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Previous Judy Miller Coverage

7-13-05:
The Judy File

7-27-05:
Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don't We?

7-28-05:
Judy Miller: How Deep Do Her Connections Run?

8-4-05:
The Judy File: It Depends on What Your Definition of "Thorough and Comprehensive" Is

8-7-05:
The Expanding Judy File

8-15-05:
The Judy File: Miller's UN-likely Visitor

8-17-05:
Defending Judy: The Times Breaks Its Own Guidelines

8-18-05:
Howell Raines Redux

8-22-05:
The New York Times Falls off the Wagon

8-29-05:
The Judy Tsunami: The Groundswell That Never Was

9-20-05:
Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection

9-30-05:
Miller Walks: The Plot Thickens

10-3-05:
Making Faux Martyrdom Pay: Judy Miller Lands a Book Deal

10-4-05:
Judy Miller, Anderson Cooper, and Me: The Truth About Book Deals

10-7-05:
Memo to the Times: Don't Make the Same Mistakes with Judy Miller You Made with Jayson Blair

10-10-05:
Clueless in Phoenix

10-11-05:
Is Judy Miller Cooperating With Fitzgerald But Not the Times?

10-12-05:
Judy Miller Meets the Grand Jury: Take Two

10-15-05;
TimesSelective: Judy-Culpa Raises More Questions Than It Answers... [UPDATED]

10-16-05:
Russert Watch: Let Me Count the Ways

10-17-05:
Judy Miller's Reporting: A Cancer on the New York Times?

10-18-05:
My Three Hours Hiking Among the Clustered Aspens With Judy Miller

10-19-05:
The Times Judy-Culpa: Random Thoughts and Unanswered Questions

10-21-05:
Assumptions Raised by the Latest Keller-Culpa

10-21-05:
Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn't Get it Wrong on WMD

10-23-05:
When Will Judy Miller Tim Russert Come Clean?

10-25-05:
The Post-Judy Fallout: Where is Sulzberger Now?

10-28-05:
Four More Years -- Courtesy of Judy Miller

10-29-05:
How Far Will Sulzberger Go to Keep Judy Miller Happy?

11-1-05:
Judy Miller: Back in the Bosom of the Times?

11-2-05:
Chris Matthews and the Power of Repetition

11-11-05:
Judy and Pinch Have a Hard Time Keeping Their Stories Straight on the Big House

12-11-05:
Choice Morsels and Unanswered Questions

12-19-05:
Paper in a Bubble: Is the Times Even More Cut Off than George Bush?

3-13-06:
Vanity Fair's Judy Miller Rehab: Blame the Bloggers

4-17-06:
The Times Asks for Answers; We Provide Some of the Questions

4-20-06:
Will Libby's "Fishing Expedition" Hook Judy Miller and the Times?

8-10-06:
From the Dept. of Stonewalling (Judy Miller Division)

8-17-06:
John Bolton and Judy Miller Breakfast at the Waldorf... As His Confirmation Battle Looms

1-30-07:
From the Dep't of Newly Turned Leaves: Judy Miller Swears to Tell the Truth

7-30-08:
Judy Miller: The Wrong Poster Child for a Federal Shield Law

Comments

[strangerinthenight]

OMG, I thought we had banished her to UK. And she is coming back !!!!!!! Can't wait for her next WMD proof headline ! First class L I A R !

[Trittydi]

So the newly forged path between the NY Times and Faux News is becoming worn. Good to keep this in mind.
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[LeftLeaner]

She'll fit right in.

[ftprairiedog]

Yes she will, Judith and Bill O'Lovelace, news you won't want to miss.

[shanefish]

McCain is going to be working for Fox News in 2 weeks after he votes for Obama!

[Puller58]

She supports Obama? Why does this sound like a set up? As for the new gig, whatever.

[alabaman]

Who says incompetence isn't rewarded? Remember the "Peter Principle?"

[jdenham]

I would not want to be Alan Combs at the daily staff meeting at Fox News. Alan keep you back to the wall.

[Nonamnesiac]

Why is this a problem or even a story? Judy Miller is just going home to where she belonged all along. The only difference will be that no one will expect her to tell the truth, as Fox is known for manufacturing wars, news, WMDs and anything else that helps Republicans in general and the right wing in particular, just like Judy Miller. Judy was just working for the wrong news syndicate when she intentionally helped murder and maim tens of thousands of US soldiers in a cause that was (and is) against the interests of the Untied States and in the interests of Iran. Now she's working for the right syndicate.

[toocoldout]

You can't be mad at her. The decision to go to war was made by congress and the president. There the ones with war power, & they had access to far better intelligence than she had access to.

[jnratliff]

They had access to intelligence gined up by chenny and addington ad who knows who else.
She took the lies the same as congress did and made bad decisions because of it!

[partyofone]

Judith WMD Miller has found a home that she deserves and that deserves her. What a wonderful match. She will have no worries about reporting the TRUTH at Fox, it never visits there.

[LeftLeaner]

You mean the "Truthiness" at Fox.

[Melissa]

Why has FOX News beat CNN and MSNBC in ratings every single month, year after year? They must be doing something right! They have many new viewers this election cycle due to the bias of CNN.

[liberalsrheros]

what was it scooter wrote..."like the roots of the aspen trees we are all connected" something to that effect anyway. real big surprise roger ailes comes through for her,all connected at the root of evil.

[BMBTHC]

This is the golden parachute for so-called journalists. When normal, moral people screw up and lots of people die, they usually feel guilty, realize their limitations and change. Judith Miller screwed up big time and part of that screw up probably had to do with her ideological blinders. Why has she not been ostracized? Even worse is that Kristol has a forum.

[rudyinbama]

Best laugh all day.
They really are the Make-Believe News channel.

[Palemoon]

Some dates to add to the timeline list..... can't believe I'm doing this for the third, (3rd! (count em, third time!)) because the other 2 were deleted for some oddball reason. This is relevant to Judith Miller, relevant to things happening in the past that are as yet unexplained and too many people will go to their graves having never fessed up.

July 14, 2003, Robert Novak of the NY Times outs CIA wmd expert Valerie Plame.
July 16, 2003, Judy Miller of the NY Times emails Ministry of Defense wmd expert Dr. David Kelly.
July 17, 2003, morning, Dr. Kelly replies to Miller's email with his famous "dark actors" email.
July 17, 2003, afternoon, Dr. Kelly is found dead in the middle of the woods from "apparent suicide".

I think some of the curiousities of those dates bear further examination. We all know Judith Miller went to prison in her steadfast refusal to testify against someone in the government. Who was she protecting? And what was it about?

Some background about Dr. Kelly. He was the secret source for the BBC to out Bush's lies in the run-up to the Iraq War, most notably the claim the Brits had incriminating intel about Saddam's wmd's.

[MichaelDeane]

Yet another incompetent masquerading as a journalist joining the Faux News crew. There is no hope there whatsoever...

[Bettysdad]

Further proof thatFox does not have any journalists on staff.