'The Washington Post': At War With Itself

The Post just gets worse by the day. Hard to believe it is the same newspaper that nailed Nixon.

'The Washington Post': At War With Itself:

"(April 09, 2006) -- It's no secret that the Washington Post's editorial position and its news reporting often are not on the same page--in more ways than one. But rarely has that gulf 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 on Sunday 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. "