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Why don't I get emails like this? Powerline has a reader who emailed one of the Post reporters associated with The Mother of All Corrections:

One of our readers has now penetrated inside the Post through an email exchange with Jeff Smith, one of the Post reporters "credited" with the story. Smith is unhappy at being associated with the debacle. This is what Smith emailed to our reader:

I agree with you that this was an egregious error. I also had nothing to do with it. All I did was obtain a copy of the unclassified summary of the IG report and write a precisely correct account, which I turned over to the other reporters. I'm not happy my name was put on that story by the editors, and I was astonished by the mistake. I blew the whistle on it internally. So don't attribute the mistake to me.

Cheers,

Jeff Smith

That's R. Jeffrey Smith. The other reporter with a byline on that story is Walter Pincus.

Comments

[Planet Moron]

Is this the Washington Post newsroom or the set of "Survivor?"