"So you did Fox's bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me. What I want to know is…."

President Clinton's remark aired on the very day two of the nation’s most prominent papers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, ran above-the-fold stories on a classified National Intelligence Estimate, selectively leaked by a Bush detractor no doubt, that purportedly concluded last April that the Iraq War has bolstered terrorist recruitment. Six weeks before the November election that NIE appears in the press, and the Democrats are busy putting out press releases crowing about it. “Hit job,” anyone?