美国《纽约时报》11月9日宣布，该报记者朱迪斯·米勒已经退休。米勒因为其在“特工门”事件中的特殊作用，曾先被该报奉为名人，后又遭到《纽约时报》的诋毁和指责。

    据美联社11月9日报道，朱迪斯·米勒在《纽约时报》可谓资深记者。这位现年57岁的女记者早在1977年就加入该报，2002年她与同事一起因报道全球恐怖主义活动，而获得普利策新闻奖。在从《纽约时报》退休前，她曾就自己的未来出路问题与该报进行了为期几个星期的协商。

    对此，《纽约时报》发行人亚瑟·苏兹贝格说：“我们感激米勒做出如此巨大的自我牺牲，从而维护一条重要的新闻原则。我尊重她退休的决定并祝她好运。”

    报道说，针对“特工门”事件中米勒的表现，《纽约时报》最初曾公开表示支持，并且在米勒拒绝向法院透露她与副总统切尼的高级助手刘易斯·利比的谈话内容后，该报还为她投入到了一场长期且花销不菲的官司。今年夏天，米勒也因此在监狱中度过了漫长的85天。

    然而，当米勒最终表示在利比的允许下，愿意为此作证后，《纽约时报》的编辑及作者却向其发出了严厉的公开指责，该报发表文章称米勒是个无赖记者，与其同事的关系素来不和，还批评她在备战伊拉克阶段的某些不实报道。米勒在获释后并未马上投入报社的工作，她最近在接受美联社记者的采访时表示，她为自己与《纽约时报》关系的破裂感到“非常难过”。 

    Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was first lionized, then vilified by her own newspaper for her role in the CIA leak case, has retired from the Times, the paper announced Wednesday.

    Miller, who joined the Times in 1977 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for reporting on global terrorism, had been negotiating with the paper for several weeks about her future. She is 57.

    She spent 85 days in jail over the summer for refusing to testify about her conversations with a confidential source. But after her release, Miller was criticized harshly and publicly by Times editors and writers for her actions in the CIA leak case and for her reporting during the run-up to the Iraq war, later discredited, indicating that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

    Miller did not immediately respond to an e-mail or answer her telephone. The Times is the flagship publication of The New Yok Times Co.

    "We are grateful to Judy for her significant personal sacrifice to defend an important journalistic principle," said Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement.

    "I respect her decision to retire from The Times and wish her well."

    The paper had initially been publicly supportive of Miller, and waged a long and costly legal battle on her behalf after she refused to tell a grand jury about conversations she had with I. Lewis Libby, then chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, about CIA operative Valerie Plame. Plame is the wife a Bush administration critic.

    After Miller ultimately decided to testify, saying Libby had given her permission to do so, the Times ran an article depicting Miller as a rogue reporter who battled with editors and colleagues. In a subsequent staff memo, Times Executive Editor Bill Keller said Miller also appeared to have misled editors about her "entanglement" with Libby.

    Miller, who did not immediately return to work for the Times after her release, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that she had been "terribly sad" about the rift.