Judith Miller is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative reporter for The New York Times. She left the paper in November 2005 after spending 85 days in jail to defend a reporter's right to protect confidential sources.

She now writes for several publications -- The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and New York Sun, among them. She also appears on television as a commentator on national security, focusing on the Middle East and counterterrorism, and the need to strike a delicate balance between protecting both national security and American civil liberties in a post-9/11 world.

Since leaving jail, she has also been advocating the enactment of a Federal "shield" law to protect the relationship between reporters and their sources and the public's right to know. For information on her jailing for refusing to reveal sources to federal prosecutors and her departure from The New York Times, see the news section or the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.


Books by Judith Miller:



   Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller, William Broad, Stephen Engelberg
  

   God Has Ninety-Nine Names: A Reporter's Journey Through a Militant Middle East
by Judith Miller