There are lots of outrages reported in
this New Yorker piece about Chalabi.
But one in particular makes the New York Times seem smarmier, more gullible and corruptible than ever:
"...In an unusual arrangement, two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the paper's war coverage, hired Chalabi's niece, Sarah Khalil, to be the paper's office manager in Kuwait. Chalabi had long been a source for Tyler. Chalabi's daughter Tamara, who was in Kuwait at the time, told me that Khalil helped her father's efforts while she was working for the Times.
"In early April, 2003, Chalabi was stranded in the desert shortly after U.S. forces airlifted him and several hundred followers into southern Iraq, leaving them without adequate water, food, or transportation. Once again, the assistance of the U.S. military had backfired. Chalabi used a satellite phone to call Khalil for help. According to Tamara, Khalil commandeered money from I.N.C. funds and rounded up a convoy of S.U.V.s, which she herself led across the border into Iraq.
"Tyler told me that he hadn't known that Khalil had helped Chalabi get into southern Iraq. He added that Khalil had a background in journalism, and that Chalabi hadn't been a factor in the war when he hired her. "We were covering a war, not Chalabi," he said. The Times dismissed Khalil on May 20, 2003, when word of her employment reached editors in New York. During the five months that Khalil was employed, Tyler published nine pieces that mentioned Chalabi. When asked about Khalil's rescue of Chalabi, William Schmidt, an associate managing editor of the Times, said, "The Times is not aware of any such story, or whether it happened. If so, it was out of bounds."..."
Clearly, Judi Miller isn't the biggest sucker at the Times.
This sort of stuff is just contemptible.