Miller co-wrote a book '' Germs : Biological Weapons and America 's Secret War '' , which became a top '' New York Times '' best seller shortly after she became a victim of a hoax anthrax letter at the time of the 2001 anthrax attacks . '' The New York Times '' determined that several stories she wrote about Iraq were inaccurate , and she was forced to resign from the paper in 2005 . According to commentator Ken Silverstein , Miller 's Iraq reporting " effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist " . Miller defended her reporting , stating " My job is n't to assess the government 's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself . My job is to tell readers of The New York Times what the government thought about Iraq 's arsenal . " She published a memoir , '' The Story : A Reporter 's Journey '' , in April 2015 . Miller was involved in the Plame Affair , where Valerie Plame was vengefully outed as a Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) spy by Bush administration official Scooter Libby after her husband published a '' New York Times '' op-ed casting doubts on claims that Saddam Hussein sought to purchase uranium from Africa . Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to reveal that her source in the Plame Affair was Scooter Libby . Later , she contributed to the conservative Fox News Channel and '' Newsmax '' , and was a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute
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