I was just looking back at Howard Kurtz’s column from last year which had an internal NYT email from Judith Miller admitting that Chalabi, “has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD to our paper.” Here’s another quote from the article worth looking at:

“Of course we talk to Chalabi,” [Andrew Rosenthal, assistant managing editor for foreign news] said. “If you were in Iraq and weren’t talking to Chalabi, I’d wonder if you were doing your job.“
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Whether or not the unit’s initial findings pan out, [they didn’t] Rosenthal says, he is “extremely comfortable” with Miller’s reporting because “all the information was attributed to MET Alpha, not ’senior U.S. officials’ or some other vague formulation.”

Uh huh. Took a year for the half-hearted correction to be printed- and they are concocting a “vague formulation” of blame targeted at U.S. officials. How stupid do they think we are? (Hint: Pretty goddamn stupid.)