Trump message long term reaction in Middle East unclear

Judith Miller is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with The New York Times. She is now an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of its magazine, “City Journal.” Since 2008, she has been a commentator for Fox News, speaking on terrorism and other national security issues, the Middle East, American foreign policy, and need to strike a delicate balance between protecting both national security and civil liberties in a post-9/11 world. She also writes theater reviews for Tablet Magazine. Prior to leaving The New York Times in November, 2005, she spent 85 days in jail to defend a reporter’s right to protect confidential sources. That year she received the Society of Professional Journalists’ “First Amendment Award” for her protection of sources. Since leaving jail, she has been advocating the enactment of a Federal shield law to protect the relationship between reporters and their sources and the public’s right to know.