In a mini-profile in the Washington Post today, Howard Kurtz writes that journalist Murray Waas, now writing for the National Journal, has “racked up a series of scoops.” The most recent – and the one which apparently spurred Kurtz to write about Waas — occurred ten days ago, when

Waas broke the story of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby saying President Bush had authorized him to leak classified information about Iraq in 2003. (Waas got a tip that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had revealed the information in a late-night court filing; the New York Sun beat him online by a few hours.)

But if the New York Sun beat Waas to publication, didn’t they break the story?