MORE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES’ SWIFT FLIPFLOP, from Tom Maguire (“Toothpaste, meet tube”) and Bill Quick: “This is an especially telling admission from the Times ‘ombudsman,’ who, in theory at least, is supposed to be the most objective journalist in the Times organization. But a ‘vicious criticism’ (what? did GWB forget to call you the world’s greatest newspaper?) is enough to warp your objectivity enough to print a story that did major damage to the safety and security of the United States?”

Eugene Volokh, meanwhile, is trying to figure out what was so “vicious.”

UPDATE: “The Devil made me do it!”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Some answers to Eugene’s question.