USA Today Doctored Photos of Condi?

The blogosphere is abuzz about the scary-looking photo of Condoleezza Rice published in last week's USA Today.

Michelle Malkin has extensive info, including many links to other sites and informative emails from her readers.

Update: Michelle Malkin reports that USA Today has taken the photo off their website and posted a note confirming that the photo was "altered" and that it did not meet the paper's "editorial standards."

That is well and good, but it does beg the question: who originally altered the photo -- the photographer who took it or someone else at the paper? -- and why? (Well, maybe we can guess why...)