once again, the nytimes proves to us that they are indeed king of all lapdog media, obediently selling their souls to the devil. from slate's today's papers:

The NYT off-leads a sneak-peak at a presidential-appointed panel's report on U.S. intel failures. Citing "officials who have seen the report's executive summary," the Times says the commission focuses much of its heat on the CIA's Iraq work but doesn't have any major bombshells. The commission, which the NYT notes operated behind closed doors, and whose creation was initially opposed by President Bush, was not specifically mandated to look at the other side of the question: how the administration portrayed the intel it received. The NYT mentions that the commission made a "case study" out of the much-flawed and rushed 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. What the Times doesn't mention is that the original classified NIE had lots of caveats and CYA language that somehow disappeared from the version that was made public in the run-up to the war.