The Road to the Iraq War | 7. Judy

Slow Burn

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News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Politics

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive Slow Burn episodes, but you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. In the months before the invasion of Iraq, the media mostly backed the Bush administration’s narrative about weapons of mass destruction. No reporter was more influential on that beat than the New York Times' Judith Miller. How did she get the story so wrong—and why was she the only person to take the fall? Season 5 of Slow Burn is produced by Noreen Malone, Jayson De Leon, and Sophie Summergrad. Mixing by Merritt Jacob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	It says we're now recording.
0:32.0	It says slate slow burn. 8 seconds. Here we go.
0:34.9	Stephen Engelberg is the editor-in-chief of ProPublica. Back in 2001, he was the
0:40.0	Investigations editor for the New York Times.
0:43.3	One of his reporters was a Times veteran named Judith Miller.
0:47.0	Maybe a couple of weeks after July 4, 2001, Judy came to my desk and she said, I've got an amazing story, we've got to go, we've got to go fast, this is really astounding
0:56.3	stuff and I said, okay, okay, what do you got?
1:00.9	What she had did sound amazing, an intercept of a conversation between two members of Al Qaeda.
1:07.0	And the first guy says something along the lines of,
1:11.0	it's really a shame the United States did not retaliate for the
1:14.8	attack on the USS Cole, which was an American ship that had been attacked by a sort of
1:20.5	suicide bombing dinghy, and then the second guy says well don't worry we're
1:26.5	planning something so big they're going to have to tell you. Miller had been
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