Isn't this the rag that has to clean house every year or two for manufacturing Pulitzer Prize stories?

Also please consider Shallit's Razor -- Never assign to conspiracy that which can be sufficiently explained by ignorance or incompetence. Anyone close to the Washington bureaucracy, especially to the strategic communications piece, would know that the "gang that can't shoot straight" could never put together a real plan to accomplish what these authors contend.

I have never been a proponent of public affairs: the spouse tends to find out; bad things happen. International affairs, on the other hand...