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07/11/2003 Archived Entry: "What freakin' planet is the Washington Post on, anyway?"
What freakin' planet is the Washington Post on, anyway?
My head is spinning here.
Check the lead of CBS News' story on Bush's Niger lie (let's call it what it is, already):
Senior administration officials tell CBS News the President’s mistaken claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was included in his State of the Union address -- despite objections from the CIA. Before the speech was delivered, the portions dealing with Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were checked with the CIA for accuracy, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.
CIA officials warned members of the President’s National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa.
Now look at the same story from this morning's Washington Post:
The CIA tried unsuccessfully in early September 2002 to persuade the British government to drop from an official intelligence paper a reference to Iraqi attempts to buy uranium in Africa that President Bush included in his State of the Union address four months later, senior Bush administration officials said yesterday.
All I can bring myself to say is what the fuck?? Is the Washington Post so afraid of this administration that they deliberately ignore the larger story here?
Once more, with feeling - what the fuck??
Replies: somebody speaks up.
How about this bit from another WP article? President Bush and his national security adviser today placed full responsibility on the Central Intelligence Agency for the inclusion in this year's State of the Union address of an erroneous allegation that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa. The WP has again allowed itself to become the White House's megaphone. Now it's all the CIA's fault. Pretty ballsy.
Another thing that gets me is why did it take so long for this story to get legs? It was in March of this year that this story was first debunked. Now four months later the press is attacking it like it's fresh meat--Jay
Posted by SharedThought @ 07/11/2003 02:21 PM NY
