Kristof seems really pissed off, and is anyone paying attention to Murray Waas?

E & P has some dirt. Of course now that the NYT has gone to a subscription model, it sometimes takes a bit to get all the story from some shameless website.

Here is some of what Kristof is reported to have penned:

...When I was covering the war in Iraq, we reporters would sometimes tune to Fox News and watch, mystified, as it purported to describe how Iraqis loved Americans. Such coverage (backed by delusional Journal editorials baffling to anyone who was actually in Iraq) misled conservatives about Iraq from the beginning. In retrospect, the real victims of Fox News weren’t the liberals it attacked but the conservatives who believed it.

Historically, we in the press have done more damage to our nation by withholding secret information than by publishing it. One example was this newspaper’s withholding details of the plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. President Kennedy himself suggested that the U.S. would have been better served if The Times had published the full story and derailed the invasion.

Then there were the C.I.A. abuses that journalists kept mum about until they spilled over and prompted the Church Committee investigation in the 1970’s. And there are secrets we should have found, but didn’t: in the run-up to the Iraq war, the press — particularly this newspaper — was too credulous about claims that Iraq possessed large amounts of W.M.D....

I'll see if I can get a link to the whole Op-Ed later.

On another note, National Journal muckraker, Murray Waas has written another gem. I'm waiting for anyone in the MSM to pick this up. So far, it seems only lefty blogs are commenting on Waas' revelations. At this juncture, what Waas reports seems credible.

All the parts of the key players seem to be acted out in accord with known information.

In case you haven't seen the piece, the essential point is that Bush personally directed Cheney(ordered?) to lead the charge in the efforts to discredit Amb. Wilson's Niger claims.

It will be interesting to see if this gets any real network time.