This diary will be a short one with a short question - what in the world did the Bush Administration have on the NYTimes that got them to freeze this bombshell of a story for over a year?
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Over the years I tended to favor the NYTimes not as a "librul" or conservative paper, but as a paper that in these times of media investigative laziness, more often than not tend to get the story straight. Oh sure, they've got their faults, the biggest ones to note of course was their former conservative editorial chief hack as well as Judy Kneepads. Aside of these faults, however, I tended to favor their writings both in the op-eds and in the investigative stories.
So what happened here? How the hell did this Administration pull yet another fast one on us all by getting this paper to sit on this story? The only thought I have is perhaps Judy - maybe they had the dirt on her with the Fitz investigation, and the Administration was going to expose her and embarrass the Times if they broke the story (which happened eventually regardless). I dunno, any other idle speculations anyone?