Via Power Line:
Three Years Later It's Still News
Today's New York Times page-one, joint-byline story by David Sanger and David Johnston is "Bush ordered declassification, official says." The story of course refers to the declassification and release of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimage consensus "key judgments" in July 2003.
Referring to the same document, on July 20, 2003, the AP headlined Tom Raum's story: "Declassified CIA documents on Iraq show divided intelligence community." Here is Raum's story in its entirety:
The point is that the release of the NIE three years ago was covered and written about prominently by the Associated Press and Knight Ridder, both primary news services for the nation's newspapers.
The Power Line guys end the story with:
The correspondent who forwarded this material to us comments: "That Fitzgerald is one helluva digger, able to ferret out this stuff that was in the headlines [three] years ago..." And don't these reporters deserve credit for making everything old new again?
Read the whole thing.
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