It just keeps getting better and better:

Dog bites man: Patterico nails the LA Times on Murtha
Allahpundit

A watchdog, to be exact. With the bite power of a pit bull and the tenacity of a terrier. And the silky coat of a collie, whose puppyish eyes you could just melt over.

He’s got them by the pants cuff again, although there’s not much there we didn’t already know. His real scoop came a few days earlier, when the Times’s reader rep responded to one of his e-mails by foolishly standing by their earlier story that it was General Hagee who had briefed Murtha before he made his first comments about Haditha on May 17th — even though the Corps has since said it isn’t true.

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Hagee’s Office Responds: Contradicts L.A. Times
Patterico

I heard back from General Hagee’s office yesterday regarding my inquiry about when Gen. Hagee briefed John Murtha about Haditha. The bottom line: Gen. Hagee’s office has directly contradicted an assertion by the L.A. Times that Gen. Hagee briefed John Murtha on Haditha before Murtha accused Marines of killing civilians in cold blood. Gen. Hagee’s office confirmed to me that the General’s first briefing to Murtha took place a week after Murtha had already made his public accusations.

The background is here. Briefly, Murtha made public statements on May 17 in which he accused Marines of killing civilians at Haditha “in cold blood.” On May 26, the L.A. Times reported that Gen. Hagee had briefed Murtha before his May 17 statements:

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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 17, 2006 at 10:17 AM in Mad Jack Murtha, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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