[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

The problem with this story is that when reporters quote anonymous sources, they are asking the reader to trust that the sources exist, and that they said what they were quoted as saying.

But this is the New York Times, and it is utterly untrustworthy. It is possible that Miller and Broad are reporting accurately. It is equally possible that they made it all up. There's simply no way to tell.

The Times should stop reporting any story which relies on the trust of the reader in the honor of the reporters and editors.

[jwalsh07]

"I have no great confidence that it's a fermenter," a senior analyst with long experience in unconventional arms said of a tank for multiplying seed germs into lethal swarms. The government's public report, he added, "was a rushed job and looks political." This analyst had not seen the trailers himself, but reviewed evidence from them.

A perfect spurce for the New York Slimes, the paper of recklessness. He hasn't seen the trailers but he knows the people that have are wrong in their conclusions about same.