Via TimesWatch, after the New York Times published an article about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the NSA terrorist wiretapping program, John Hinderaker pointed out that the NYT’s article didn’t square with other accounts of the hearings. Nathan Goulding and I tracked down the transcript and confirmed Hinderaker’s suspicions: The NYT got the story wrong.

Today, the NYT issued a correction:

An article on March 29 about congressional hearings on the Bush administration’s program of domestic eavesdropping referred imprecisely to testimony about the secretive court known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which requires warrants for eavesdropping under most circumstances. While two former judges said they believed that Mr. Bush was bound by federal laws governing intelligence gathering, they did not explicitly express skepticism about whether he has the constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order.

Say this for the NYT: It has been more willing to correct its recent errors than some news organizations I could mention.

UPDATE: Scott Johnson posts a letter from a Power Line reader that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the NYT’s correction process.