Wetting the bed together

It now comes out in Bob Woodward's book State of Denial that respected journalists were invited to a top policy making meeting in Washington to write a report to the President on how he should deal with Afghanistan. These included Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek and Robert D. Kaplan, now of Atlantic Monthly.

This strikes me as a complete breech of journalistic trust. How in god's name can any journalist write an unbiased account of the government's goings on when he/she has been part of the planning for them? And, how can we, the readers of these journalists' articles make any kind of informed judgment about the validity of their reports if we haven't been told that they themselves were involved in the planning? This is the ultimate embedding. They're all wetting the bed together.