McCain-Iserman story — NYT ready to dish!

You, yourself, can e-mail The New York Times to ask them whatever you want on the McCain-Iserman story.

Here’s my questions:

1. Is Bill Keller on the editorial board, re the Times' endorsement of McCain?

2. Even though the story was necessarily tightly held to the vest, should he have said SOMETHING to the editorial board, somewhere in the process of candidate interviews by the board, discussions, votes, etc.?

3. Was the Drudge leak by one of the four reporters involved? If so, was the leak directly to Drudge? To a friendly WaPost reporter? To some other third party?

4. If not for the Drudge story in December, the WaPost story in December and Baquet's continued push, would Bill Keller ever have let this story see the light of day?

I’ve got more I’d ask, but I am curious about some inside process stuff here.