This is but the tip of the iceberg.
My opinion. Yes, the NY Times was manipulated. Willingly.
Just as they let Joe Wilson use their pages for his own (and their) ends. In fact, El Baradei is probably complicit in that scheme too, having to do with yellowcake as it is and those forged documents.
Just as they front-paged (as they did with Wilson--the minute President Bush was out of the country) the "secret-tapes" ploy.
I just found out they have hired none other than Richard Clarke to write a regular column (to appear every 3 weeks, says he) in their Sunday magazine, too.
They should be treated with contempt for the trash they are.
I have been listening to a local (Dallas) radio talk show that had a guy named Dave Gabitz (sp) on. He has written a book--I got in late and don't know name yet---about his job as a US weapons inspector in Iraq.
As I said, I got in late, but I heard him say that he KNEW of places that had WMDs--that local Iraqis had told him about and that were in places that the CIA had alerted them to---
Anyway, he said that NO ONE ever went to some of the places and dug---he said that for the last 18 months, he has been trying to talk to the "powers that be" to try to get them to look further, because in his opinion, there really were WMDs where intelligence said there was---
The reason he is writing book now, is because when "they" said the search for WMDs was officially over, and they hadn't looked in the places he KNEW of, he decided to tell the truth is a book--
He says he doesn't blame Bush, that he knows Bush was right, but the agencys between he and Bush dropped the ball.
I will listen for name of book-- the guy is working in the Medical Examiners Office in Dallas now.
Sorry for putting this on this thread, but I didn't know which other thread to use---
ARE YOU SERIOUS????!!!! Richard Clarke writing a column for the NYT? The same Richard Clarke who told one story under oath to the 911 commission and then told the opposite story in his book in order to make money? The Times is bad...but they couldn't be that STUPID, could they?