CorrenteWire: The Grey Lady that did not bark in the night

Submitted by lambert on Fri, 2005-10-14 23:18.

Curiously, America’s Greatest Newspaper (not!) has never mentioned the White House Iraq Group. Not once.

Why is this curious? Because to make the case for Bush’s war of choice in Iraq, the W.H.I.G. was tasked with fixing the facts and the intelligence around the policy through a disinformation campaign that involved more than 50 planted stories in the press. The W.H.I.G. membership? Karen Hughes, Andrew Card, Mary Matalin, James Wilkinson, Karl Rove—and “Scooter” Libby, the source Judy “Kneepads” Miller was, erm, “protecting.”

Why would the Times not cover this story? Why wouldn’t anyone else? Here are some theories, in increasing order of institutional corruption.