Daniel Okrent, the public editor at the NYT finally weighs in on the paper's WMD coverage: "Even in the quietest of times, newspaper people live to be first. When a story as momentous as this one comes into view, when caution and doubt could not be more necessary, they can instead be drowned in a flood of adrenalin. One old Times hand recently told me there was a period in the not-too-distant past when editors stressed the maxim 'Don't get it first, get it right.' That soon mutated into 'Get it first and get it right.' The next devolution was an obvious one."