It astonishes me that the Readers' Editor, someone with long experience in journalism, thinks retracting this story would mean taking it offline as if it never

It astonishes me that the Readers' Editor, someone with long experience in journalism, thinks retracting this story would mean taking it offline as if it never happened. Frankly, I think this is a weak response. There is nothing in this investigation they could not have cleared up in January; instead, they dawdled and now they equivocate.