To anyone among the chattering classes who gives a damn

Judy Miller is gone from the Times. As Michael Wolff said during a journalism conference, it's easy to get up in arms about a reporter doing jail time for a leak from the White House. There's only one problem: that reporter is Judy Miller.

She is celebrated and scorned, both famous and infamous. A dogged reporter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of four books, expert on terrorism, confidante of powerful government sources through several White House administrations -- and yet Miller's credibility came to rest on a single question: Does she tell the truth?