"If you look at the editorials we write running up [to the war], we state as flat fact that he [Saddam Hussein] has weapons of mass destruction," Hiatt said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review. "If that's not true, it would have been better not to say it." [CJR, March/April 2004]
Yes, it is a traditional rule of journalism that if something isn't real, you're not supposed to say it is.
But no accountability was demanded of Hiatt or almost anyone else who served at the propaganda front for George W. Bush's war of aggression.
Now, with the grisly details of that unnecessary war spilling out, Hiatt is still there, still the master of the Post's opinion pages, to do whatever he can to continue covering up this "supreme international crime" for which he and many other Washington opinion leaders share the blame.
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