The newspaper's editorial page on Sunday declared Scooter Libby's notorious 2003 gift to reporters "The Good Leak." On the same paper's front page two reporters thoroughly debunked the notion.
By Greg Mitchell
(April 09, 2006) -- It’s no secret that the Washington Post’s editorial page and its reporting elsewhere in the paper often do not see eye to eye. But rarely has the disconnect seemed wider than in the Post’s Sunday edition this week.
The editorial page, a co-producer and then staunch defender of the war in Iraq, declared in a headline today that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) info “Scooter” Libby gave to reporters in 2003 was in reality “A Good Leak.” The White House was not out to punish Ambassador Joe Wilson for raising doubts about pre-war intelligence; in fact, Wilson is the bad guy in this story for making false claims. Bush, in a sense, is the hero, for instantly declassifying the key NIE document--he was only out to inform the public. Now the poor guy, the Post complains, is the target of “hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy” from the Democrats.
The Post editorial concludes, “It’s unfortunate that those who seek to prove” that grounds for the attack on Iraq were bogus “now claim that Mr. Bush did something wrong by releasing for public review some of the intelligence he used in making his most momentous decision.”
As often the case in Post editorials related to Iraq, reporting in the newspaper proves much of the above is pure hogwash. This reality checking usually doesn’t happen the very same day, however.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002314409Joe Wilson was right this AM, doesn't the WP even read their own news before they write an editorial? Today's front page has got to be an all time classic.
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