Facts: - birth date: 2 january 1948 - name: judith miller - occupation: journalist , writer - birth place: new york city , new york , usa - alma mater: ohio university state university barnard college of columbia university princeton Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of judith miller .
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judith miller -lrb- born january 2 , 1948 -rrb- is an american journalist and writer .she is formerly of the '' new york times '' washington bureau , where she became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of iraq 's weapons of mass destruction -lrb- wmd -rrb- program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on faulty information , particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced ahmed chalabi .'' the new york times '' later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate .according to commentator ken silverstein , miller 's iraq reporting '' effectively ended her career as a respectable journalist . ''miller acknowledged in '' the wall street journal '' on april 4 , 2015 that some of her '' times '' coverage was inaccurate , although she had relied on sources she had used numerous times in the past , including those who supplied information for her reporting that had previously won a pulitzer prize .she further stated that policymakers and intelligence analysts had relied on the same source as hers , and that at the time there was broad consensus that iraq had stockpiles of wmd .miller was later involved in the plame affair , in which the status of valerie plame as a member of the central intelligence agency became widely known .when asked to name her sources , miller invoked reporter 's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the cia leak and spent 85 days in jail protecting her source , scooter libby .miller later was forced to resign from her job at the '' new york times '' in november 2005 .later , she was a contributor to the fox news channel and a fellow at the conservative manhattan institute .she is currently a member of the council on foreign relations .on december 29 , 2010 , numerous media outlets reported that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine '' newsmax '' .