Safire blasts the commission

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Zelikow Report: "'Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie' went the Times headline. 'Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed' front-paged The Washington Post. The A.P. led with the thrilling words 'Bluntly contradicting the Bush Administration, the commission. . . .' This understandably caused my editorial-page colleagues to draw the conclusion that 'there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda. . . .' "