From Reviled to Revered to Reviled

So Kat and I were talking about the whole Judith Miller situation at the NY Times and we realized that neither of us really understood what the hell was going on. So I looked back a bit and this article on Miller's recent retirement from the NY Times has provided a nice summary of what the heck happened.

Apparently, she was the conduit for some of the skewed "intelligence" the Bush administration was handing out preceding the Iraq War and was pretty heavily criticized. The chronology kinda works like this:
1) Link to an old Slate article here.
2) I thought she was upholding some fine journalistic principals for refusing to name her source for the Valerie Plame leak.
3) Her Farewell Letter here.