Smoky correction from The New York Times regarding McCain story

Power Line notes that The New York Times finally got around to a correction of sorts to the Bumiller-Rohter story I posted about here (not that the Power Line folks took note of my post; they posted their own commentary somewhat after I published mine):

Because of an editing error, an article last Thursday about foreign policy advisers to Senator John McCain referred incorrectly to an error he made at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 8. He briefly referred to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as a Shiite group, rather than a Sunni group; he did not repeat an error during the hearing that he had made on a trip to the Middle East last month when he said several times that he was concerned that Iran, a Shiite nation, was training Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a Sunni group. (Go to Article)

As Scott Johnson notes, the Times (almost defiantly) emphasizes the dubious former claims of supposed McCain errors. The Times' presentation makes it somewhat difficult to pinpoint the error made by the Times. If that was by design, it was well done.

The error at the Times continues to rate as more severe than the supposed errors by McCain.

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