New York Times admits it knew of Saddam - Al Qaeda ties

From Andrew McCarthy writing in NRO

After printing two articles retracting their claims that there was no connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda, we now get this astonishing admission that, not only did the Times know that there was a connection, they had documentary poof weeks before they printed this:

the New York Times reported, in a screaming page-one headline, that the 9/11 Commission had found "No Qaeda-Iraq Tie."

Andrew McCarthy writes a detailed smack down on the Times. Be sure to read all of it.

Today, in a remarkable story that positively oozes with consciousness of guilt, the Times confesses not only that there is documentary evidence of at least one tie but that the Times has had the document in question for several weeks. That is, the Times was well aware of this information at the very time of last week's reporting, during which, on June 17, it declaimed from its editorial perch that the lack of a connection between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama bin Laden's terror network meant President Bush owed the nation an apology.

While America might be aware the Times retractions and admissions of guilt, the BBC here in the UK isn't reporting any of it. This despite jumping on the Probe rules out Iraq-9/11 links bandwagon.

It is all part of the BBC's new "core values" training. Bias by omission.