The press takes a powder

The other day, I posted a piece in which Andrew Sullivan exposed the efforts of the Washington Post’s Walter Pincus to bury and then downplay the Defense Department’s memo documenting links between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Now, Jack Shafer of Slate weighs in on the same issue:
“A classified memo by a top Pentagon official written at Senate committee request and containing information about scores of intelligence reports might spell news to you or me

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