[piasa]

By the way- the Washington Post's Gelman- who wrote the "earlier manifestation" of this story, is the reporter who totally mischaracterized/lied/distorted/fabricated his information on our intel on Iraqi WMD and whom the Iraqi Survey Group's Dr. Kay and the Australian general Meekin had to correct in letters to the Post because Gelman got it so wrong and his claims about what Meekin did in Iraq were pure bullshiess...

[SlickWillard]

It would interesting to do a "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" on these folks:

NY TIMES
By DAVID BARSTOW
This article was reported by David Barstow, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth, and was written by Mr. Barstow.

WASH POST
Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus
Staff writers Glenn Kessler, Dana Priest and Richard Morin and staff researchers Lucy Shackelford, Madonna Lebling and Robert Thomason contributed to this report.