Judith Miller was IN Iraq at one point. I remember that she wrote a long article about the search for WMD that had a lot of detail. It basically took the position (this was early in the post-war time period) that there were WMD's and it was only a matter of time until they were located.
Perhaps she got her information from someone in the CIA.
Here's an excerpt of an E & P piece from today about Clarke's new editorial writing gig. It was done by telephone:
...But in his upcoming column, Clarke will take back the nice things he said about airport security, alleging that people with phony driver's licenses have been able to easily escape detection. You can get a license off the internet for $48, he told E&P.Curious, and I wouldn't consider the reporter's interpretation of Clarke's comment as authoritative.Does Clarke have a view on whether the White House is using special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to punish Judith Miller of The New York Times in the Valerie Plame leak case? I don't know about that, he says slowly, then sounding as if he were talking about himself, adds, but as a general statement they do hold grudges. They do go after people.
The Times put itself in a sticky position by hiring Clarke as columnist.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20050228/en_bpiep/richardaclarketalksaboutwritingregularcolumnforthenytimes