Yes I read these reports too. At the time the NYT was saying they were paltry finds and Bush was still guilty because these weren’t stockpiles.
What is the NYT trying to pull here?
What they are doing is spinning the historical record. Number one, they can excuse past reporting by citing this report. Number two, they can still claim that what is found now in Syria or shows up being battled with ISIS is still left over from “Bush’s War.”
It is all backfilling the record to support positions they will take later.