A few thoughts on under-celebrated reporting of the WMD manipulation story. First, some of the more interesting, not-following-the-pack pieces I’ve seen have been by Knut Royce in Newsday. (Do I know him? No, never even heard his name before a week or so ago.) And, of course, let’s keep in mind that Tom Gjelten of NPR had pretty much the entire story — the administration’s knowledge of the problems with Niger claims, the last minute back-and-forth with the CIA, and even the decision to use the Brits to get around the CIA’s objections — more than a month ago, back on June 19th. Talk about beating everyone else to the story!
