Oh, how quickly the Times forgets its friends, Chalabi must be thinking
today.
Describing Chalabi, Sanger wrote today: "He became a master of the art of
the leak, giving new currency to the suspicions about Mr. Hussein's
weapons." Leaks? Who was his favored drop? Miller of the Times, although
there were many others.
And in today's Times editorial: "Before the war, Ahmad Chalabi told
Washington hawks exactly what they wanted to hear about Saddam Hussein's
weapons of mass destruction ... Much of the information Mr. Chalabi had
produced was dead wrong. He was one of the chief cheerleaders for the theory
that Iraq had vast quantities of weapons of mass destruction. ... But he
can't be made a scapegoat.
"The Bush administration should have known what it was doing when it gave
enormous credence to a questionable character whose own self-interest was
totally invested in getting the Americans to invade Iraq. ..."
Left unsaid is that the Times should have known better, as well. Yet,
incredibly, the paper of record has never run a corrective editor's note to
clean up the mess that Miller made for the Times' integrity.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000516946
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