News that U.S. soldiers had been implicated and charged in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal was announced by the U.S. military and widely reported a full seven weeks ago, despite claims from Democrats and their media water-carriers of a Bush administration "cover-up" that lasted until last week. Though Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is now on the hotseat for not telling Congress and President Bush about the mistreatment of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib facility, the most widely read newspaper in Washington carried a detailed report on the scandal nearly two months ago. The early and ample coverage of...