A columnist's amazing ability to hold two ideas at...two different times

Brad DeLong does a public service by laying out two columns by the Post's Jim Hoagland side by side.

It's astonishing and a reminder of how influential members of the chattering class cheered on the administration's march towards war in Iraq.

Joshua Micah Marshall reminds us of the Washington Post's two-faced Jim Hoagland. But even I had failed to grasp exactly how two-faced he is. In October 2002 it was finally the case that some in the CIA were willing to buck careerism, recognize the obvious danger of Saddam Hussein, and no longer bury evidence. In February of 2004 it is incompetent alarmists at the CIA who exaggerate the Iraqi threat--and poor naive George W. Bush who believes them[.]

That level of intellectual dishonesty raises the bar for columnists everywhere.