On any other day, the Thomas Ricks story that the chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq "recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there" would be of seismic importance.
But the Washington Post does the White House a favor by running the Ricks story as well a story on Sadr's evolving role on this busy news day.