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I'm starting to think that not 1 reporter in 100 either knows the truth or is reporting the truth.

The Senate Bipartisan Committee reported that what Joe Wilson was reporting privately in closed door sessions to Congress actually bolstered the Bush administration's position that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium.

The bipartisan committee report that shows Wilson lied about what he found in Niger:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21844942

The panel found that Wilson's report, "rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, actually bolstered the case for most intelligence analysis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9

To this day, British intelligence maintains that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Africa, recently underlined by a report from The Financial Times of London. The British government states "European intelligence officers have now revealed... human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger." The New York Times paraphrased the above with a clear-cut story titled: "Intelligence Backs Claim Iraq Tried to Buy Uranium." The essay leaves no doubt as to the claim of Bush in January 2003 that Saddam Hussein was not only was trying to procure uranium, but had been for years.
http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1087373295002.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Wilson misled the Washington Post in June 2003, when he told the paper that the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." In fact, Wilson had never seen the reports.

When the Senate committee staff asked Wilson how he could have come to that conclusion, Wilson replied that he may have "misspoken" (See first paragraph) to reporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9
The MSM signed an amicus brief saying there was no crime in the Plame leak:

36 major news organizations and professional reporters' groups (including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The New York Press Club and The White House Corespondents) insisted that "no crime" had been committed in the "Plame Leak" case because, among other things, Valerie Plame's identity had previously been disclosed to both the Russians and the Cubans!

Read their brief here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665581/posts?page=12#12

When you look at Roberts' statements what immediately jumps out at me is how he laid out the FACTS and that his colleagues on the committee who were Democrats could not find it in themselves to acknowledge the truth. Joe Wilson was not credible, he had, through ignorance or worse, misled the CIA, the Committee and the press about the whole affair. He had not debunked anything but rather he had given analysts even more reason to suspect something was up.

The Democrats have shown themselves to be completely reprehensible around this whole situation. Rather than deal in facts they have chosen to not only ignore them but continue to support lies in order to weaken Bush who is a sitting President in a time of war. I don't have an issue with an opposition party that stands on some principles on what is good for the country and its people but the Democrats have long since stopped being a credible opposition party and instead have allowed their hatred for anything Bush to guide their actions, the consequences on this country be damned!!