The NYT's Jill Abramson publishes a mea culpa within a book review

In a brief section of her 2008 review of Bob Woodward's Bush-era books, Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson includes a stark and forthright admission of error. She owns her missteps related to the Times' buttressing the administration's position on weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.) as a pretext for the Iraq war:

In “Plan of Attack” Woodward acknowledges an error of his own: he admits he should have pushed The Washington Post to publish a front-page article about the flimsiness of the intelligence on W.M.D. I was Washington bureau chief for The Times while this was happening, and I failed to push hard enough for an almost identical, skeptical article, written by James Risen. This was a period when there were too many credulous accounts of the administration’s claims about Iraq’s W.M.D. (including some published in The Times and The Post).

[Hat tip Capital New York. This piece also includes more context on Abramson's role in the editing of the Times' Iraq War pieces.]