Pundits with Blood on Their Hands

Although he doesn't mention her by name because she is a reporter, Harold Meyerson explains why it is OK for Judith Miller to be spending a little time in jail right now:

"For its war in Iraq, the Bush administration relied on and benefited from the cheerleading of a group of pundits and public intellectuals who, at every crucial moment, subordinated the facts on the ground to their own ideological preferences and those of their allies within the administration. They refused to hold the administration’s conduct of the war and the occupation to the ideals that they themselves professed, or simply to the standard of common sense. They abdicated their responsibilities as political intellectuals -- and, more elementally, as reliable empiricists."