Adam Yoshida has a really interesting post about this topic at his blog, adamyoshida.com

He’s ultra-conservative, the most conservative person I have ever encountered, and is widely regarded by leftists as an extremist lunatic. I think he is brilliant, however, and while he sometimes goes too far for me (for instance, Adam has argued that we should have invaded China during the Korean war and used nuclear weapons during the conflict), I agree with many of his positions and appreciate his first-rate mind.

He does a very through analysis of the news stories and basically concludes that this a politically motivated smear job, yet another inside-the-beltway power struggle that has spilled over onto the newspapers.