Journalistic Ethics by mike · 2004-06-01 In an unusual arrangement, two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the [New York] Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the papers war coverage, hired Chalabis niece, Sarah Khalil, to be the papers office manager in Kuwait. Chalabi had long been a source for Tyler. Chalabis daughter Tamara, who was in Kuwait at the time, told me that Khalil helped her fathers efforts while she was working for the Times. Earlier here. Related