On September 4, 2001, exactly one week before the 9/11 attacks, Miller, excerpting from a paranoid book, Germs, she had written with Times reporters William Broad and Steve Engelberg, reported approvingly in the New York Times that the Pentagon had green-lighted “a project to make a potentially more potent form of anthrax bacteria.”46 Miller did not explain why this response seemed rational or even sane.
