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Douglas Jehl

• November 17 -- Is the New CIA Chief "Suppressing Dissent"?
New C.I.A. chief Porter Goss won't be catching any breaks at the Times, judging by the coverage so far: "The newest spymaster lays down the law. Some see his move as suppressing dissent."

• October 7 -- "Prewar Assertions…Bore No Resemblance to the Truth."
Toning down Douglas Jehl's story on Iraq before it hit print?

• August 25 -- Rummy Trouble on "Eve" of Republican Convention?
Douglas Jehl's front-page story strains to make the just-released Abu Ghraib report a political problem for Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on the "eve of the convention" (still five days away).

• August 4 -- Bush Playing Politics With Terror?, Part I
A lead editorial obnoxiously suggests Bush is playing political games with terror warnings: "….it's unfortunate that it is necessary to fight suspicions of political timing, suspicions the administration has sown by misleading the public on security." But a front-page report today, armed with more facts, takes a more sober view of the terror threat.

• July 26 -- Downplaying Al Qaeda-Iraq Ties, Again
In a front-page story on the 9/11 Commission's final report, Times reporters again try to minimize proven ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq.

• July 23 -- Times Again Tries to Minimize Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
Douglas Jehl insists the final 9/11 report "finds no indication that contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda in the 1990's 'ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship,' a conclusion very different in tone from assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials." But the report actually goes into significant detail about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties.

• July 23 -- Sandy Berger "Disrupted" Millennium Terror Plot?
After a string of blame-Bush stories in the Times, reporters David Johnston and Douglas Jehl squelch most of the anti-Bush bias in their story on the 9/11 commission's final report. But some misinformation still leaks through.

• July 19 -- Failing to Own Up to Joe Wilson's Credibility Collapse
When will the NYT admit its favorite anti-war horse has come up lame?

• June 22 -- Could Bush & Co. Have "Foreseen" 9-11?
Douglas Jehl again argues the Bush administration missed clues to the WTC attack.

• June 18 -- Jehl Calls Bush Into Question Over 9-11
Douglas Jehl pens a slanted analysis of Bush and the 9-11 report: "…that panel has called into question nearly every aspect of the administration's response to terror, including the idea that Iraq and Al Qaeda were somehow the same foe. Far from a bolt from the blue, the commission has demonstrated over the last 19 months that the Sept. 11 attacks were foreseen, at least in general terms, and might well have been prevented, had it not been for misjudgments, mistakes and glitches, some within the White House."

• June 14 -- A Late Attack on the War in Iraq
A front-page story by Douglas Jehl and Eric Schmitt, "Errors Are Seen In Early Attacks On Iraqi Leaders," comes courtesy of the left-wing anti-war group Human Rights Watch--and unaccompanied by military knowledge, according to critics.

• April 14 -- Why Won't Bush Apologize for 9/11?
At Bush's press conference Elisabeth Bumiller demanded: "Do you feel any sense of personal responsibility for September 11th?"

• April 12 -- Where "PDB" Means "Pin Damage on Bush"
The Times uses the August 2001 "President's Daily Briefing" to hit Bush for allegedly missing clues to 9-11--despite the memo's lack of detail.

• April 5 -- The Times Still an Anti-Condi Conduit
Douglas Jehl and David Sanger again hold Condoleezza Rice up to a level of scrutiny that anti-Bush Richard Clarke managed to avoid: "Her task seemed to become even more difficult on Sunday, when the leaders of the commission said that it was likely to conclude that the Sept. 11 attacks were preventable." But the commissioners didn't blame Bush or Rice.

• March 10 -- Twisted Terror Priorities at the Times
The Times' twisted priorities on the war on terror: Possible miscalculations by the Bush administration get top-shelf treatment, while potential terrorist threats are either played down or (in the case of Jehl's story) not mentioned at all.

• January 22 -- Douglas Jehl's Dubious CIA Sources
Douglas Jehl pumps up the import of a group of retired CIA agents pressing Congress for an inquiry into Valerie Plame, but leaves out the left-wing anti-war connections of some members.