NO POLITICAL PRESSURE ON INTELLIGENCE? That’s what the New York Times is reporting, and Tom Maguire has an observation:

More than 200 witnesses, any of whom would have been given a career-long shoulder ride by the Democrats simply for uttering the magic words, and no one admitted to being pressured to produce cooked intelligence? That will come as a shock to some, and we are sure the Times will want to highlight this information.

Is it just me, or is the “Bush lied” case in the process of collapsing? Via the on-a-roll Greg Djerejian, who notes that the Times isn’t exactly giving the story front page treatment, and observes:

This, er, little piece of news is buried in Graf 5 of this Douglas Jehl NYT piece.

Imagine, God forbid, if it had gone the other way!

Say, for kicks, just one of the two hundred analysts said Doug Feith bullied him to death on his analysis of the intel.

What would the lede be then?

And where would the Times place the story?

Yeah, those are rhetorical Qs.

They sure are.

UPDATE: Check out this editorial cartoon about the NYT from Marty Two Bulls of Indian Country Today.