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Philip Shenon

• November 23 -- Bush Should Squeeze Congress, Says Suddenly Supportive Times
Suddenly, the Times favors Bush pressuring Congress: "A number of Congressional Republicans and members of the Sept. 11 commission….said that Mr. Bush, who has vowed to revive the bill, also needed to put pressure on a handful of House members aligned with the Pentagon who defied the president over the weekend and blocked a final vote on the legislation."

• November 22 -- A Double Standard on Anti-Terror Cheap Shots?
Labeling bias and double standards on political "cheap shots" in a front-page story from Philip Shenon and Carl Hulse.

• August 19 -- Philip Shenon Steams Rice Over 9/11
Philip Shenon puts Condi Rice on the hot plate again: "…[David Kay's] remarks were clearly aimed at her performance and reflected a widespread view among intelligence specialists that Ms. Rice, perhaps Mr. Bush's most trusted aide, and the National Security Council have never been held sufficiently accountable for intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war."

• 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 12 -- Still Ignoring the 9/11 Commissioners
Philip Shenon's story on the 9/11 commission's upcoming final report again insists the commission undermines White House arguments about a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda--despite what the cochairmen of the commission say.

• June 22 -- More Moore, Less Clarke
Intelligence reporter Philip Shenon pens a quasi-review of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11" and goes out of his way to defend Moore. Also: What became of media hero Richard Clarke?

• June 21 -- More Misleading on Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
Times reporter Tom Zeller challenges liberal conventional wisdom on the idea that the 9/11 report contradicts Bush and Cheney's claims about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Will his colleagues ever do the same?

• June 17 -- The 9-11 Report: Overreaching to Blame Bush
Philip Shenon and Christopher Marquis take the front page for the first in a series of blame-Bush stories in the wake of the 9-11 commission's report: "The staff of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks sharply contradicted one of President Bush's central justifications for the Iraq war, reporting on Wednesday that there did not appear to have been a 'collaborative relationship' between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein."

• 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 9 -- Philip Shenon Called On Caller Double Standard
On C-SPAN, reporter Philip Shenon was combative with a conservative caller but limpid with left-wingers. He got called on it: "…whenever we get these wild allegations and misstatements by critics of the administration…you never correct it. But any slight variance and…you're quick to defend the previous administration [Clinton]."

• April 9 -- Condi Not Contrite?
David Sanger seems annoyed Condi Rice didn't concede blame on the part of the Bush administration for 9-11: "She did not acknowledge failings…She also did not concede that the newly arrived Bush administration was part of that problem, or that it, too, underestimated what it confronted or was distracted by other issues like tax cuts, China and missile defense." He and reporter Philip Shenon also fail to provide context to a heated exchange between Rice and Democratic interrogator Richard Ben-Veniste.

• April 2 -- Clarke Commended, Rice Fried
Philip Shenon and David Sanger--surprise--bolster Richard Clarke at the expense of Condoleezza Rice.

• March 26 -- A Condi Scoop for the Times?
Condoleezza Rice is retiring?