The mystery of Judith Miller has become even murkier with the Times own revelations over the weekend on the case. The Times produced a multi-page article that says, in essence, that Miller answered only to herself at the nation’s most important newspaper. The Times painted a picture of a reporter who called her own shots and a newspaper so afraid of losing its pipeline to the Bush Administration that her management would not even demand an accounting when the sources proved to be totally wrong—as they did on the issue of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. The story, perhaps the first candid article that has appeared in the Times, made it clear that Miller alienated colleagues, including the paper’s able managing editor, Jill Abramson.