Mea What?

If you thought the Washington Post's mea culpa was lame, take a look at the New York Time's version (conveniently published during Labor Day weekend so the talk shows can't sink their teeth into it). I read this article three times before being distracted by a shiny object, and I still don't know what it's about. Nowhere in the article does it say that Bush-hater Joe Wilson is a serial liar. Nowhere does it say that the NYT published page-one after page-one after page-one articles foretelling the Bush administration's demise. Nowhere does it say that from day one, the Plame case was a truckload of baloney. Or maybe it does and I'm just too lowbrow to understand it.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — An enduring mystery of the C.I.A. leak case has been solved in recent days, but with a new twist: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, knew the identity of the leaker from his very first day in the special counsel’s chair, but kept the inquiry open for nearly two more years before indicting I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, on obstruction charges. Now, the question of whether Mr. Fitzgerald properly exercised his prosecutorial discretion in continuing to pursue possible wrongdoing in the case has become the subject of rich debate on editorial pages and in legal and political circles.