If the Washington Post Editorial Board were any more of a set of tools for the 1600 Crew...damn. From an editorial in the Post today, here's one of the featured distractor lies the GOP is pushing:
At the same time, Mr. Rove and other administration officials had a legitimate interest in rebutting Mr. Wilson's inflated claims -- including the notion that he had been dispatched to Niger at Mr. Cheney's behest. (my emphasis)
In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake — a form of lightly processed ore — by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office.
So the Post sells the GOP line that Wilson says he was tasked by Crashcarts' office to go to Niger. Wilson say he was asked by CIA to investigate a matter that was of interest. Huuuuge difference there between fact and spin. What a shame that the Post can't read the Times.
So we have to ask, is our reporters reading the definition of 'is'?
Apparently not.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.16.05 at 11:54 AM
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Great research to find what Wilson actually said. Yeah, the WaPo ed board is trying to carry water for the WH spew crew. Keep rebutting their bullshit.
posted by: mando on 07.16.05 at 02:55 PM [permalink]
Parsed terms. Cheny was trying to stuff the Niger forgery down everyone's throat, Tenet took Plame's word on Wilson's credentials(Gibron sells uranium also, and Wilson speaks French for Niger, plus his contacts within the Muslim world from his days helping people stay alive when Saddam invaded Kuwait precedes him as a straight shooter).
Wilson was decorated as a diplomat, quite a rare distinction. Same for Wes Clark or John Kerry.
The neocons only know how to trash the good profiles. Wilson shows respect for the culture sharing tea, rather than the unprofessional consumption of alcohol in a culture whose ethic frowns such.
He was on, the entire time. In the right place and time and the right frame of mind.
They try and parse the same points prepeatedly hoping Wilson misstates something. Fitzgerald has it from here...
posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.17.05 at 09:13 AM [permalink]
Great point on the discrepancy. And I'd like to emphasize that the actual "Wilson-Rove" scandal is only the tip of a really big iceburg.
"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." AfterDowningStreet.org is a coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war."
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
The Rove scandal is providing further evidence that this Republican administation was actively spinning the intelligence to fit their pre-established policy.
