Did Capitol Hill Blue Post An Article With Fabrications?

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[William McKinley]

In this article on Capitol Hill Blue, there are the following lines:

"The report had already been discredited," said Terrance J. Wilkinson, a CIA advisor present at two White House briefings. "This point was clearly made when the President was in the room during at least two of the briefings."

Bush's response was anger, Wilkinson said.

"He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," Wilkinson said. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country."

Serious allegations. But I notice it is a single source. Being a conservative, I value the lessons of experience, and experience has told me that single sources are to be treated with skeptism. When I see one, I want to know more about the source quoted so as to establish if I should treat that source as credible.

So what about "Terrance J. Wilkinson"?

A Google search for "Terrance J. Wilkinson" found no results (which will change when Google picks up the Capitol Hill Blue article).

Google suggested that the name might be Terrence. But a Google search on "Terrence J. Wilkinson" also produced no hits.

Perhaps the middle initial is the problem. Alas, a Google search on "Terrence Wilkinson" CIA gave no hits, and a Google search on "Terrance Wilkinson" CIA also yielded no hits.

A Google news search on Terrence Wilkinson comes up with nothing relevant. So does a Google news search of Terrance Wilkinson.

A Google search on one of the phrases from one of the quotations comes up empty.

I would anticipate a 'CIA advisor' who attends the same briefings as the President to live somewhere near D.C. But there are no listings according to Anywho for a Terrance or Terrence Wilkinson in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia.

A Google search on "CIA Advisor" Wilkinson also comes up empty.

Perhaps Capitol Hill Blue would be better served by providing some more information about the person quoted so that others can judge his credibility. That is, if he exists.

[section9]

OF COURSE!

Doug Thompson pulled this same stunt in January and February. He pulls some fictitious person out of his ass and makes up an incident. Indeed, I recall that Doug's February screed had not only a fictitious person, but almost word for word like the January article. Nick Danger wrote a whole expose on this and debunked the whole outfit.

In short, CHB is little more than a lying rag run by a mendacious sack of sh*t.

End of Story. Case closed.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Mo1]

This Doug guy just doesn't want to be reached at all.

Why am I not surprised

[section9]

Cute, Doug. Run a single source story that we're supposed to believe? I don't buy Mystery Meat. Even Woodward and Bernstein double checked their sources.

Sorry, Doug. I don't believe you. This has been done before on your site.

You dislike Bush? Fine. You want to peddle the claim that he pushed to make the Niger story up? You'd better have more than "Terence Wilkenson" to back your story up.

Now where did you leave your "high powered Republican consultants" from last January's steaming pile? Oh yeah. In a bar with "Terence Wilkenson".

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Doug Thompson]

Quote:

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This Doug guy just doesn't want to be reached at all.
Why am I not surprised

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Odd. I'm right here.

[ArneFufkin]

Is the courageous Wilkinson going to be making these serious allegations against the President, on the record, to any other leading news outlets besides yours, Doug?

[mystery-ak]

...al-righty then.

[Mo1]

Fine ..

I believe there are a few questions Freepers would like to ask you

[Doug Thompson]

"Is the courageous Wilkinson going to be making these serious allegations against the President, on the record, to any other leading news outlets besides yours, Doug?"

That's up to him.

[rwfromkansas]

I would have taken your article more seriously if you would not have said Bush lied when even your source didn't say that. All he said was that Bush believed that it would be proven true and therefore, he went ahead and went with it. Your source did not say Bush told him something along the lines of: "Well, you are right, but I am going to say it anyway." The latter case would constitute lying. Not the former, which was actually what happened according to your source.

You also should have tried to find a second person to confirm what Wilkinson said.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I guess we now know where the outlet spout deposits flushed trolls...

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Doug,

Great story and keep up the good work President Bush must have his feet held to the fire for his liberal left ways. From CFR to Islam is peace and now giving money to terrorist or the socialist drug plan that he says he will sign no matter what, well most REAL conservatives are about fed up with it. Except of course his Bush/bots that defend every move he makes like good socialist soldiers.

Did you read this from Rush Limbaugh yesterday?

President Bush endorses and approves of big government
<a HREF="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070703/content/the_limbaugh_echo.guest.html ">White House Denies The BIG Theory = President Bush endorses and approves of big government </a>

[Edited to use the correct title for the President.]

[ July 08, 2003, 06:54 PM: Message edited by: TLBSHOW ]

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[Mo1]

OMG ... is that for real?

[rwfromkansas]

I notice the banned TLB posted on the CHB forum...lol. He just has to post somewhere, doesn't he?

Thank goodness we have gotten rid of him finally.

[wildbill]

For obvious reasons, a current CIA employee who might be called upon for duty in another country would probably use a "work name" rather than his own.

Would you be surprised if the intrepid sleuth who wrote this would find that if he called the CIA's number and asked for Terrence that he'd be told there was no one there by that name. :-)

[rwfromkansas]

That said, I am going to Freepmail you with some questions for Wilkinson.

[Mo1]

He seems to posts everywhere ..

[Doug Thompson]

QUOTE:
"You dislike Bush? Fine. You want to peddle the claim that he pushed to make the Niger story up? You'd better have more than "Terence Wilkenson" to back your story up.

Now where did you leave your "high powered Republican consultants" from last January's steaming pile? Oh yeah. In a bar with "Terence Wilkenson"." END QUOTE

I read that attack earlier this year. As I recall, the author said he couldn't find any listing for the Republican consultants named in the article because, like today, the names didn't pop up in an Internet search.

You can search the Internet until the cows come home and you probably won't turn up any information that from 1981-87, I worked for three different Republican congressmen on the Hill (as press secretary, chief of staff and a committee consultant). You also won't turn up the fact that from 1987-1992, I ran the Political Action Committee for the National Association of Realtors (at that time the nation's largest PAC) or that I worked for the Reagan-Bush re-election campaign in 1984, served as a campaign consultant to both the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee or that I worked from 1992-2002 for The Eddie Mahe Comapny, one of Washington's oldest and best known Republican consulting firms (at the same time I was publishing Capitol Hill Blue).

Good research is a lot more than running someone's name through Google.

Doug

[Right Wing Professor]

That's up to him.

I suspect it may not be. Assuming he exists, the Washington press corps will find him as easily as a pack of jackals find a week dead antelope; as will a Congressional subpoena. If he were a Washington insider, he would know this.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yep:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=22;t=000700;p=3

(towards the bottom of the page)

[Neets]

Pitiful!!

[Neets]

...the same thing, over and over, everywhere!!!