Post Cleared of Espionage.....they didn't reveal contents of Iran policy document

Co-bloger and intrepid sleuth Bob Samet has the goods.....Frum overstates the case that the Post disclosed the Iran policy document over a year ago.

Frum wrote:

Perhaps you would like to know what was in the draft directive? Well, good news: You can. The thing was leaked to the Washington Post and a story based on the link was published on June 15, 2003.

Bob 'the slueth' Samet read the Post article and found that

"The Post article doesn't talk about the contents of the document, but rather, merely refers to it and at the same time talks in general about the subject of the internal debate going on within the government over US Iran policy. It then goes on to say that the Post couldn't find out what was in the document. Here's an actual quote from the article that Frum doesn't mention:

"Senior administration officials refused to talk about the status of the
Bush policy directive on Iran, on the grounds that it is classified ...."

The upshot...the Post seems to have hyped the story by playing it out over three days when there wasn't much news to report and the real charges aren't known....but they aren't hypocrites, they hadn't also previously revealed the contents of the classified document.