Don't need truth if a lie suffices

Except for the 'pox on both their houses' apologia ant the bottom, Bookman hits it.

Jay Bookman: Big stories not always tied to truth

"Some of those people -- Woolsey and Safire in particular -- have been around long enough to know better. Their willingness to tout such bogus evidence can only be explained in one of two ways: Their desperation for vindicating evidence is so intense that it has compromised capacity for independent judgment, or they knowingly pushed evidence that they strongly suspected was fake in order to muddy that line between truth and fiction..."