Unfortunately, that's even worse for the paper's credibility. Lelyveld was the Times' executive editor during two of the Gray Lady's worst periods of the 1990s - the Whitewater scandal-that-wasn't, and the Wen Ho Lee witchhunt. Worse, as this item's link shows, Lelyveld still does not understand the basic facts in Whitewater or his own paper's incredibly fact-free reporting, and he used a review of Sidney Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars to repeat them in print just a month ago.

This is not an improvement for the Times.