From Back Talk: A Trip down Memory Lane, discusses the NY Times involvement in furthering the lies that Joe Wilson told and the lies about the Plame leaks:
Isn't this the same New York Times that published Joe Wilson's original fabrication entitled "What I didn't find in Africa"? With these now infamous words, Wilson single-handedly launched the misguided but nevertheless surpassingly successful "Bush Lied!" insurgency:
"Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."
... now that the fantasy [the Plame scandal] has gone up in a puff of smoke, the latest article in the New York Times can think of new questions only for Patrick Fitzgerald. Well, I have a new question for the editors: In light of your apparent eagerness to maliciously and fallaciously savage the reputation of your own president during a time of war, what does this whole sordid affair say about you?It seems like a fair question to me, and I am sure that an honest answer will shed light on the paper's eagerness to expose other administration "scandals" (like the NSA wiretapping program and the CIA's program to monitor the financial transactions of terrorists).
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