Perhaps with the work of jveritas and others translating the Iraq document dump, the WaPo knows it's just a matter of very little time before the truth comes out. When faced with the inevitable, they may believe that it's best to now get on the side of the truth.
Well...they USED to be a good paper..at least on the editorial side. It's only been the last couple of years they jumped into the Liberal poll to rival the NYT's for bias.
I can't say why they'd do this now, but I don't find it incredibly unbelievable that they would.
Maybe they have seen the handwriting on the NYT's wall. We can only hope.
He has insisted that there is no scandal almost from the beginning.
They are one of the few who are smart enough that they are getting the rope-a-dope on this one and they're trying 'duck' while there's still time to keep the egg off their faces.
I figured "Washington Times" was the correct answer, but Washington Post....
wow...wonders never cease....
What's up?
On July 18, 2003, the administration, facing criticism for the intelligence used to justify the war, declassified an eight-page part of the NIE dubbed "key judgments" and conducted a lengthy background briefing with reporters to discuss it.“Key judgments" is the operative word here. They were declassified by Tenet in October of 2002, six days after the NIE was complete per the following information:
On October 7, 2002 DCI Tenet sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying portions of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
Another article:
A 25-page version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was released in October 2002. It made clear-cut statements about Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons capabilities in two pages of "Key Judgments."A copy of the Key Judgments document can be found here. Warning: .pdf file.
As usual, the MSM gets it wrong.
Maybe they want take down the NYT and become the new "paper of record?"