Norm Solomon on the "Liberal" New YorkTimes and NPR

"Tardy by more than a year, the semi-mea-culpa article by the Times editors -- while failing to provide any forthright explanation of Chalabi's role as a chronic source for Miller's prewar stories -- appeared a week after the U.S. government turned definitively and publicly against its exile ally Chalabi. Only then were the top New York Times editors willing to turn definitively and publicly against key Times stories spun by the Chalabi-Miller duo."

See the entire article.

I also thought the timming of the mea culpa odd. The same week the US turned on Chalabi. It's similar to state controlled media, criticism that is allowed and that which is not. The talk of Chalabi as crook and criminal and purveyor of lousy intelligence has been around in the left wing press for years but the week the US government turn on him the NY Times gives its "apology."