Interestingly enough, FDL announced their press credentials on Jan 3, and MBA on Jan 11. So even the NYT’s correction still seems to have the facts wrong. The correction reads, in entirety:

A front-page article on Thursday about bloggers covering the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. referred imprecisely to the role of Robert A. Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, in securing credentials. Mr. Cox negotiated access for his association, which was the first blogger group to be granted credentials to cover the trial. He did not negotiate on behalf of firedoglake.com and other blogs that received their credentials later.

I’ll take this up with the NYT and see what happens.

Auditors: Billions Wasted in Iraq
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
1:39 PM PST, February 15, 2007

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted, overcharged or poorly tracked $10 billion in taxpayer money, federal investigators said Thursday.

The three top auditors overseeing contract work in Iraq told a House committee that Defense and State department officials condoned or otherwise allowed poor accounting, repeated work delays, bloated expenses and payments for work shoddily or never done by U.S. contractors.

That problem could worsen, the Government Accountability Office said, given limited improvement so far by the Department of Defense even as the Bush administration prepares to boost the U.S. presence in Iraq.

David M. Walker, comptroller general of the GAO, Congress’ auditing arm, said his agency has been pointing out problems for years, only to be largely ignored or given lip service with little result.

Somewhat off topic, I was thinking of where I might look for some Scooter associations. Some that come to mind are his defense fund and the list of PNAC members. He also has had connections with RAND and currently the Hudson Institute.

I looked up his wiki article. What I found there incidentally were several references to the MBA coverage of the Scooter trial. Nothing about firedoglake’s coverage. So I wonder if Mr. Cox has been doing some editing there.

And apparently is STILL editing. When I went to the wiki page, there was a bit about FDL. When I went back to it just now, that part had been removed.

just before going to work for the vice president in 2001, the managing partner of the Washington office of an international law firm then named Dechert, Price, and Rhoads.