While most of you spent yesterday bitching about Shea's renaming, Judith Miller was in a Chicago courtroom testifying in the trial of Muhammad Salah, an American accused of aiding Hamas. Miller's role in the trial? Relaying her account of his 1993 prison interrogation, which she claims did not include anything that resembled torture. How lovely for Salah. But under cross-examination, Salah's defense team got pesky.

Under cross-examination, one of Salah’s defense attorney, Michael Deutsch, suggested with his questions that Miller had been used by former Israeli prime minister Rabin to spur U.S. authorities to take seriously Israeli allegations that Hamas had a support network in the United States.

Deutsch also said Miller’s reporting on allegations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was used in a similar way by U.S. officials to justify starting a war in Iraq. “Isn’t it true that you are no longer with The New York Times because you have been exposed as someone who got too close to public officials?” Deutsch challenged her.

“No, sir, that is not true,” Miller replied without elaborating.

No, silly! Judith Miller is no longer with the Times because she got "too close" to her, ahem, colleagues. Oh, and that whole WMD thing being a total farce. But thanks to her carefully worded exit agreement, she'll never have to fess up to departing the Times on those grounds.