Yet another Murray Waas bombshell piece — if you believe the leftwing blogs and liberal pundits — on Iraq has appeared in the National Journal as a “news feature.” The fact that the anti-Bush crowd loves what Waas has to write should come as no surprise. Over the years, he has written for the American Prospect and The Nation. Going back to the Reagan administration, the common thread of Waas’ investigative journalism has been to go after Republicans. Spend just fifteen seconds on his blog and you’ll learn Waas isn’t a big fan of the current Bush administration. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with criticizing or investigating the White House. But Waas’ Iraq pieces always seem to fit nicely with the story line spun by Democratic Senators Rockefeller and Levin that the president and vice president lied us into war. Waas’ work appears regularly in Frank Rich’s weekly conspiracy columns in the New York Times, and Chris Matthews hypes his pieces on Hardball but makes sure his viewers know where it was published. “The new piece tonight that ran in Washington’s National Journal, a very respected, even-handed journal,” is how Matthews characterized another Waas piece on Iraq pre-war intelligence that was far from “even-handed” — see here. And Waas current piece isn’t much better. More later.
