The Washiington Post ran with a Page One story yesterday by its top Bush-basher, Walter Pincus, highlighting a critique of the administration’s purported manipulation of prewar intelligence by Paul Pillar. Pillar, a former CIA official, is a longtime administration critic who, like Michael Scheuer, was permitted by CIA to make his political case against the President while on the government’s payroll, even in the run-up to the ‘04 election.

Over at the Weekly Standard, Steve Hayes has posted an excellent critique of Pillar, and of the Post’s silly suggestion that Pillar’s latest outburst is somehow “news”.