Joe Hagan in the Wall Street Journal today:

New York Times reporter Judith Miller has begun discussing her future employment options with the newspaper, including the possibility of a severance package, a lawyer familiar with the matter, said yesterday.

The discussion about her future comes several days after the public rupture of the relationship between the Times and Ms. Miller, a 28-year veteran of the paper. Both the editor and the publisher of the Times have expressed regret for their unequivocal support for Ms. Miller when she spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the unmasking of a Central Intelligence Agency operative.

The negotiations began with a face-to-face meeting Monday morning between Ms. Miller and the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., said the lawyer familiar with the situation. A spokeswoman for the New York Times declined to comment. Ms. Miller didn't return calls...

As I post this, Times columnist Maureen Dowd is telling Imus she thinks the Times "is sorting through issues... and they will get it straight this week."

Imus pointed out, "Who's in charge over there?... Judith Miller says, 'Well, oops, I made a mistake about WMDs' -- we've got 2,000 kids dead."