You did a good job of summarizing the story. You reached the same conclusions that I did, at 4 a.m. when I revised my story on the same subject, on Newsbusters.org Click below for my take, which is the same as yours except I also picked up on the Wa-Po's denial of knowledge, which raises more questions than it answers.
19 posted on 11/02/2005 3:08:09 PM PST by King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)