The Washington Post's news editor, Douglas Jehl, admitted that a conscious decision had been made to ignore the story.
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Correction: In my Friday column, "Intelligence and the anti-Israel lobby" I misidentified Douglas Jehl as a Washington Post editor.
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As the Standard's Stephen Hayes notes, Jehl's statement is notable because it shows that he and colleagues never considered whether Freeman's record was newsworthy in and of itself.
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