Romenesko

Huffington Post
"All the money we've spent in Iraq to support the Iraq government, where has it gone?" asks McClatchy DC bureau chief John Walcott. "I think it has been very hard to play the watchdog role on the US mission in Iraq. We've been fairly lonely on that. I haven't seen other people looking into [delays and mismanagement in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Iraq] quite as hard as [McClatchy reporter] Warren [Strobel] has. Basic accountability reporting has been lacking."
> The war has nearly vanished from TV screens in recent months (AP)