Benghazi Emails: Despite spin, not just a Fox story any more

The story on Page 8 of yesterday’s New York Times amounts to an admission of journalistic error.

It’s a conventional news report: “A newly released email shows that White House officials sought to shape the way Susan E. Rice, then the ambassador to the United Nations, discussed the Middle East chaos that was the context for the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.”

But the Times waited until Thursday to publish a story that Fox News and others were blaring on Tuesday, because it was...