Fred Hiatt to the Columbia Journalism Review 02/2004: “In editorials, we state as flat fact that [Saddam] has WMD. If that’s not true, it would have been better not to say it.” Robert Parry: “Yes, if something isn’t real, we’re not supposed to say it is.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/19/why-wposts-hiatt-should-be-fired/