Exclusive: NYT's Keller Admits Getting 9/11-Iraq Wrong in Article About Getting 9/11-Iraq Wrong

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Exclusive: NYT's Keller Admits 10th Anniversary Article on Getting Iraq-9/11 Connection Wrong Was Wrong About Iraq-9/11 Connection
Concedes to The BRAD BLOG 'no evidence whatsoever connects Saddam to 9/11,' after mea culpa piece suggesting otherwise...

In a lengthy piece in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, former Executive Editor, now opinion piece writer, Bill Keller attempted to come to terms with both his own, and his paper's, major failures during the lead-up and follow-through in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

While Keller eventually comes around to admitting that both he and the paper got it wrong (albeit with lots of justifications for the failures along the way) he continued to hedge one very crucial bet in just the fifth paragraph, as he wrote (emphasis ours):

...Iraq, a place that had, in the literal sense, almost nothing to do with 9/11, but which would be its most contentious consequence.

We have been attempting to contact Keller since Sunday, asking via both email and Twitter:

"Almost"? Okay, I'll bite. What exactly was Iraq's role in 9/11?

Today Keller replied, admitting that that part of his Sunday story --- a story about the Times' costly failure of getting the Iraq War wrong --- was wrong as well...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8753

Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8753

[5X]

1. I went to the times looking for an email addy to write to him and tell him what an ass he is...

and tell him he has no business in his profession if he lets his testosterone speak for him,
but, alas, he is too chicken to have one handy.

[Bozita]

2. Keller's scheduled to be on Charlie Rose tonight

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5. Think it'll come up?

Um, that's a rhetorical question. Sadly.

[on point]

3. Only an expose by NYT on how Bush, the neocons and the media lied to us will cleanse their record

[yardwork]

4. Thank you.