It's pretty obvious why she didn't take her husband's name--it would give to much away.
Nice work rounding all this stuff up, btw; further evidence that the internet is going to be the death of the left-wing dinosaur MSM outlets.
As for the ethics, I wouldn't have a problem with her reporting on stuff like this, but she should disclose the facts that give rise to a potential bias. The problem here is the extent to which she and the AP went to cloak who she was.
Thanks, Cal. Somebody should put together a timeline of her husband's work in government/consulting and her articles and then cross check them for correlation. Also a nice flashy NY Times style "web of connections" would be splendid. Ethanol, the outlawing of MBTE, a couple of retiring and embittered GOP pols, the Clinton White House, ChevronTexaco, Inc., Green Strategies, Inc., Terry McCauliffe, the DNC and the Associated Press...
;-)
-T