This should be investigated by Congress and the Justice Department. The press has an explicit duty to check their facts and they obviously didn't here. The result was the endangerment and deaths of some of our troops and a straining of relations with governments we are building as democratic allies in an unfriendly part of the world. There was no real urgency to run this story, there was time to check and double-check the facts before publication. It is obvious that Newsweek's agenda was to harm the US military and President Bush to the detriment of the truth. I hope the White House and the Pentagon "shut out" Newsweek from any news other than allowing them to be present at normal briefings. They should not talk to Newsweek in anonymous "off the record" settings and they should refuse to take their questions at briefings and press conferences.
Newsweek would be an excellent first example to actually prosecute for bogus inflammatory lies published especially during a time of war. This cannot stand. And I don't want to hear First Amendment Rights on this one.