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And though she never actually got wind of anything like real confirmation, she dutifully regurgitated the whispers, even adding her own rhetorical flourishes. This is the fifth paragraph of the book, and Miller is already telling us that all of the following people and organizations made the same mistake she did:.

You run out of fingers pretty fast trying to count how many people there are here. S and the United Nations! And they all made the same mistake, according to Miller. Look in the fridge. Any normal reporter witnessing this lunacy would have developed doubts about the war effort very quickly.

This rhetorical technique — always reminding us that some prior act of hyper-vigilance would have been justified, before conceding to some later instance of over-credulity — is used throughout the book. My alma mater was honoring me with a medal of distinction, and I spoke about Iraq. In the blink of an eye, Miller presents herself as just an ordinary Ivy-educated beat reporter following her nose, one who wins the odd medal of distinction and who began earlier than some — in May — to have doubts about the Iraq war.

And she describes herself as having been ready to go to her editors with those doubts, when the paper treacherously sold her out with a front-page piece questioning her reporting.

In the context of the book, the decision by the Times to throw Miller under the bus is presented as the result of a series of circumstances outside her control. In particular, the Jayson Blair episode led to the ouster of a pair of senior editors close to her, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd. Mistakes were made. Mostly, she just had a lot of rotten luck. Every bad thing Miller has ever been accused of turns out to be wrong or taken out of context, according to her.