Over at NRO’s Media Blog, Tom Gross has the completely unsurprising story of Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas official and occasional op-ed contributor for the Washington Post and New York Times. Yousef was able to get both papers to run pieces “defending [Hamas’s] policies in Gaza” (this according to a Reuters report under the headline “Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S.”) on the same day last summer, shortly after the group seized control of the Gaza strip from the Palestinian Authority. Yesterday, Gross reported on this statement, which came just ahead of the Annapolis summit: