Who's behind the NYT's McCain story?

Answer: Dean Baquet, former LAT editor. At some point, he ought to be made to pay for the damage he has done to the newspapers he has worked for. According to the New Republic, Baquet persuaded NYT editor Bill Keller to publish the McCain piece. The two have combined to produce substandard journalism before, and then tried unsucessfully to justify it by jointly publishing a 2006 op-ed in the NYT and LAT.