"This last fact is highly suggestive; one could infer, at a minimum, that the lesson the AP took away from that incident was that "Jamil Hussein," whoever he is, is unreliable. Which leaves us wondering about the other 61 stories for which he has been a source.

These are all significant questions of which Mr. O'Brien appears to be entirely ignorant. One wonders: does the company that Mr. O'Brien works for consider ignorance and inaccuracy to be drawbacks, or virtues?"