Wow, just a few weeks of steady Democratic campaign coverage and the mainstream press seems to be finally catching up on what we've known for over a year: the White House cherry-picked its intelligence estimate for Iraq's WMD. Editor & Publisher gives an overview of national editorial pages and their response to the Kay report and the possibility that the White House cooked the books.

Editorials Question Bush's Role in 'Cooking' Up a War: "An E&P survey of the top 20 newspapers by circulation found that as of Wednesday, 13 had run editorials on Kay's resignation as chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq last Friday, and his statement that no WMDs exist in Iraq, and likely did not exist in Iraq during the U.S. run-up to war.

Nearly all of those papers blamed intelligence failures for the miscalculation and called for a full probe. But eight of the 13 -- most of which supported the war -- also raised the issue of White House deceit and its possibly blind pursuit of intelligence that fit its plan for war. "