While the headline of the lead story that McClellan harshly condemned certainly did the administration no favors, the story itself, as noted, was neither reckless nor irresponsible, but was also not necessarily of huge consequence.  Back in May of 2003, what appeared at first to be "mobile biological weapons labs," turned out to be unsuitable for that purpose. Perhaps ignoring conflicting information faxed in from a team of field experts in Iraq a few days earier, in late May of 2003  the DIA and the CIA issues reports concluding that the two trailers were bio weapons labs, prompting the President to exclaim, on May 29, 2003, "We have found the weaspons of mass destruction." The main problem, as the article also points out, is that this refrain was repeated throughout the year, and was not officially corrected by the intelligence community until the final report of the Iraqi Survy Group that came out over a year later.  Given what seemed to be the exaggerated selection of guestimated intelligence information as "fact," by the administration prior to the war, the Post article, again, with respect to the assertion of the trailers as bio weapons labs, implicitly asked why.