burying the lede
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=2
On any other day, the Thomas Ricks story that the chief of
intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq “recently filed an unusual
secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that
country’s western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost
nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social
situation there” would be of seismic importance.
But the Washington Post does the White House a favor by running the
Ricks story as well a story on Sadr’s evolving role on this busy news
day.