Miller's Mangled Mea Culpa

Judith Miller, in a BBC interview, apologized for her role in spreading WMD misinformation by saying: "I am obviously deeply chagrined that I ever write anything that turns out to be incorrect. I'm deeply sorry that the stories were wrong." No word on how she feels about the larger issue of being used to sell a misguided war—this apology could apply to her getting the breed of dog wrong in a story about the local pound. Even still she should have stopped there because once she got going: ...she defended her journalism saying she was right to publish and had done everything she could to verify the facts. She said: "I'm deeply sorry our intelligence community got it wrong. "I am deeply sorry that the President was given a national intelligence estimate which concluded that Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and a active weapons programme." There was plenty of information out there contradicting the bogus claims of the White House Iraq Group. Specifically, what did she do to verify the story? If she did anything, let alone "everything she could" it's curious she's not sharing it with the public. And she's also quite good at apologizing for what everyone else did wrong—a transparently pointless sentiment.