Hah!
Thanks for that tidbit mate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist)#Anthrax_hoax_victim
Anthrax hoax victim
On October 12, 2001, Judith Miller opened an anthrax hoax letter mailed to her New York Times office. The 2001 anthrax attacks had begun occurring in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with anthrax-laced letters sent to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and the New York Post, all in New York City, as well as the National Enquirer in Boca Raton, Florida. Two additional letters (with a higher grade of anthrax) were sent on October 9, 2001 to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy in Washington. Twenty-two people were infected; five died.
In 2008, as the government's investigation of these mailings focused on Bruce Ivins, Mr. Ivins committed suicide.
The official view is that Mr. Ivins acted alone.
Miller was the only major U.S. media reporter, and the New York Times the only major U.S. media organization, to be victimized by a fake anthrax letter in the fall of 2001. Miller had reported extensively on the subject of biological threats and had co-authored with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad a book on bio-terrorism, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War which was published on October 2, 2001. Miller also co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits", published in Yhe New York Times on September 4, 2001, weeks before the first anthrax mailings. Miller also participated in a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation on Oklahoma City conducted on June 22-23, 2001 - Operation Dark Winter - her role was media reporter/observer.
Miller announced her retirement from the New York Times on November 9, 2005, citing among other reasons difficulty in performing her job effectively after having become an integral part of the stories she was sent to cover.[9] The announcement may not have been voluntary - her journalism had come under intense criticism with accusations that she had become a shill for the Bush administration. This criticism generally followed the line that her reporting of cherry-picked intelligence favorable to the administration's pro-war positions prior to the Iraq war reflected an uncomfortable "entanglement" with administration officials.[citation needed]
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Failure to report source controversy
In July 2005, Miller was
jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent.
by tal » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:32 pm 
