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May 31, 2006

The big one that got away?

Greg Sargent has a story that will make your jaw drop.

The short version: Judith Miller had information--before September 2001--that Al Qaeda was planning a large-scale attack on the US, former NYTimes editor Steve Engelberg held back the story because it wasn't firm enough, and managing editor Bill Keller (above Engelberg on the organizational chart) never heard about the story until much later.

Read the whole thing, and wonder what might (not) have been--if an editorial call had gone the other way, or if Miller's reporting had been less worthy of suspicion.

Oregon angle: Engelberg, whose middle name is "hindsight", is now managing editor of the Oregonian.

Posted by Nothstine at May 31, 2006 07:26 PM