Posted on 02/09/2007 4:19:57 PM PST by Weight of Glory
A Feb. 9 front-page article about the Pentagon inspector general’s report regarding the office of former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith incorrectly attributed quotations to that report. References to Feith’s office producing “reporting of dubious quality or reliability” and that the office “was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda” were from a report issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
"Got that? The big scoop was that the Pentagon itself had concluded that Feith floated bogus intel on the links between Iraq and AQ and suggested that he’d done so at Bush/Cheney’s behest. Except the Pentagon didn’t conclude that. Anti-war Democrat Carl Levin did."
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Bush/Cheney made WaPo print it... Rove fed them lies...
Aliens eat liberal brains for breakfast.
True story, they cannot be trusted.
Always a day late and a dollar short.
Tell me this wasn't purposeful. The original story ALWAYS gets more play than the retraction, which is what the Crapington Post was counting on. Get the lie out there in people's minds, then print a 2 inch retraction back in the Obituaries the next day. The liberal lie machine marches on.
Retractions never get the same play as the original error/lie. Just think of the "sixteen words." The 'rats know this. Sometimes it's malicious, sometimes it's just misremembering.
Is the following re Libby trial misremembering or malicious? Just tonight on Fox News, Mort Kondrake said that President Bush said that "Anyone who released her name will be fired." That is NOT what W said at all. He said "Anyone who broke the law will be fired. Releasing her name was not breaking the law, and even at that, it was done by the anti-Bush state department Richard Armitage.
First thing I posted earlier was the comment that if it's coming from Levin it can't be true.
I'm shocked that they corrected the story.
Story is the operative word.
Pincus can now return his Pulitzer Prize.
Levin put out crap and the Post published it. I read this junk in my local paper, courtesy of the Washington Post. I wonder if the paper will print a retraction.
like the AP...WaPO has issues with "sources"
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