The New York Inquirer

Actually, that’s unfair. In recent years, the National Inquirer has cleaned up its act. They actually fact check their stories.
The New York Times simply buries the ones that don’t slide neatly into the intended bias. The fiasco of last week, in which the 9/11 Commission allegedly declared “No Ties Between Saddam And Al Queda” has properly been debunked throughout the blogosphere, and disavowed by the commission members themselves.
Until now, the media was given the benefit of the doubt – if you can call it that. They were characterized as sloppy or conveneintly obtuse. It turns out, that it’s been a little more complicated than that.

The New York Times reports an Iraqi document — one that it obtained several weeks ago, but that the 9/11 Commission seems somehow to have overlooked — outlining collaboration between Saddam and Osama back in the 1990s. This is, of course, consistent with these media reports of such contacts from 1999.

That’s right. They were sitting on evidence that refuted their own reporting.
Go read Glenn Reynolds round up of links, including this timeline.
Jeff Goldstein;

New York Times: “Okay, so there is a document proving ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda, but the document doesn’t really prove prove those ties — or rather, it does prove prove ties…
…but it doesn’t exactly prove prove that Bin Laden and Saddam ordered a single milkshake and two spoons, if you catch our drift.”

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