In October 2005, Miller claimed in an e-mail to the Times public editor that after a July 2003 breakfast meeting with Scooter Libby, she had suggested to Jill Abramson—then Washington bureau chief and now Times managing editor—that the bureau pursue the tip she'd received about Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV's trip to Niger and his wife's employment at the CIA.

Abramson rejected Miller's tale about the tip, telling me, "That is not so."