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And how long ago did WE say this:

However, some of the new material is clearly responsive to the critics. For example, Mickey wrote this:

And, as Maguire notes, a second Kristof column on June 13 says Wilson had been sent "at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney," which is a good bit wronger than the May 6 formulation--but which Kristof conveniently doesn't mention.

But wait! The Premium Truth Select version now adds this:

And in a later column I said Wilson had been dispatched "at the behest" of Cheney's office; it's true that he was sent in response to Cheney's prodding, but that wording wasn't choice because it can easily be read to mean that Cheney asked for the trip.

"That wording wasn't choice". Just so.

and this is just swell:

Kristof may have hit on the marketing breakthrough that will save TimesSelect. Call it TruthSelect. Here's the plan: Have the op-ed columns in the print edition contain flagrant inaccuracies. Figure out what the factual version of events is, but print the corrected, accurate version only on the restricted, premium portion of the Web site, where people have to pay $49.95 to get at it. The B.S. is free. The truth you have to pay for! It's so simple and intuitive it's genius.

I would like to respond to the mistatements, miscast aspersions, and omissions in the article linked below but I am swamped at work and don't have the time. All I can say is I am sorry Erik Mink . . . still has a job.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/ericmink/story/79BED3F49C8E0E01862571E80001C928?OpenDocument

According to Wikipedia (I know...but it is backed up by the link to the report listed below):

However, Drumheller is now at the center of a controversy first mentioned in the "Additional Views" section of the "Report of the Senate Committee on Intelligence on Postwar Findings About Iraq's WMD Programs and Links To Terrorism and How They Compare to Prewar Assessments". As previously mentioned, Drumheller had appeared on 60 Minutes and reported that a source who was a high-ranking Iraqi official with direct access to Saddam Hussein (Sabri) claimed that there was no Iraqi WMD program. But according to documentary evidence obtained by the Senate Committee on Intelligence, Sabri stated just the opposite:
"Iraq was currently producing and stockpiling chemical weapons",
"Iraq scientists were dabbling with biological weapons with limited success"
"Iraq's weapons of last resort were mobile launchers armed with chemical weapons"
According to the Senate Committee report: "The Committee is still exploring why the former Chief/EUR's public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation."[2]

I then checked out the report and sure enough, on page 144 of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report, it clearly states that Drumheller's recollection of Sabri's information conflicts with information that Sabri told the Committee. Wish I could post the text here, but it is one of those darned .pdf files and it won't let me cut and paste that text.

Bottom line...Drumheller is repeating an old story that is a proven lie to sell his book.

Melanie Sloan said on October 1st 2003, then updated on January 21st 2005 that Wilson had been sent by the CIA, now she's trying to twist it again and say it was VP Cheney that sent him.

http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat_03/2003-10-01-sloan.htm

By the looks of this, this commie has been on his legal council team right from the start of "The Big Lie".

My gut tells me this is all a plot to cover up the US portion of the 'OFF' scandal and I think at the end of the day we'll find out all these VIPS, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and many others were all involved and reaping the benefits from it.