The Hunt for Iraq's Weapons (David Kay corrects Post Writers for misrepresenting)

WashingtonPost ^ | 11/01/03 | David kay

[Pikamax]

The Oct. 26 front-page article "Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat" is wildly off the mark. Your reporter, Barton Gellman, bases much of his analysis on what he says was told to him by an Australian brigadier, Stephen D. Meekin. Gellman describes Meekin as someone "who commands the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center, the largest of a half-dozen units that report to [David] Kay."

[doug from upland]

This is one sharp guy who is not going to let the press get away with crap. Way to go, David.

[Paradox]

... BITCH SLAP!...

[GeronL]

The Oct. 26 front-page article "Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat" is wildly off the mark. Your reporter, Barton Gellman, bases much of his analysis on what he says was told to him by an Australian brigadier, Stephen D. Meekin. Gellman describes Meekin as someone "who commands the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center, the largest of a half-dozen units that report to [David] Kay."

Meekin does not report, nor has he ever reported, to me in any individual capacity or as commander of the exploitation center. The work of the center did not form a part of my first interim report, which was delivered last month, nor do I direct what Meekin's organization does. The center's mission has never involved weapons of mass destruction, nor does it have any WMD expertise.

hhahahaha, the whole story was a lie!!??

[okie01]

If the stated errors and mischaracterizations are characteristic of Gellman's reporting, it's evident that he is either a.) incompetent, b.) promoting an agenda or c.) both of the above.

[FairOpinion]

I am glad David Kay is not letting them get away with their lies.

[GeronL]

Talk about inaccurate reporting

[Diddley]

Get 'em, David!

Diddley

[Calpernia]

Liberal Reporting Spanking Ping.

[Kaslin]

Notice how the article was hidden at page A21?

[Bonaparte]

Gellman's misrepresentations were splashed across the front page.

Kay's corrections appeared a week later on page A21.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[ClancyJ]

Looks like Mr. Gellman needs to be fired. A reporter? Don't think so. Reporters report - not make-up scenarios.

[kayak]

ping!

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the ping, kay! It is now clear to me that the Washington Post will continue to say no evidence of WMD have been found in Iraq until they are shown on live nationwide television.

And the correction to this odious story was well-hidden. I think McClellan should pull the Post's press credentials for a week or two. It shouldn't hurt them, since they simply make up their stories anyway.

[Grampa Dave]

The Washington Compost where the mythical Deep Throat was created, is an institution that lies just like the NY Slimes and the LA Slimes.

The bad thing is that their lines then get printed by the smaller fish wraps around the country, and articles like this are never printed.

Thanks for posting another example of how the Compost lies and lies to spin their liberal line.

[gaspar]

To understand how Gellman works is to understand everything that is wrong with the Washington press corps. In 2002 he received a Pulitzer for reporting on Al Qaida, yet nothing he produced was novel about an organization founded in 1988 and whose aims were made perfectly clear in July 1996. It was simply the Washington Post's turn to win a Pulitzer.

Gellman himself is a part of the Eastern Ivy League elite, Princeton '82, and in a recent lecture at his alma mater he explained: "Secrecy, Security and Self Government: How I Find OUt Secrets and Why I Publish Them." Inherant in this title is the egotistical "I know best" that rules today's journalism, and note that he claims "and Why I Publish Them," not "and why the WASHINGTON POST publishes them."

He will not be punished for this sloppy piece of journalism. But thanks to the internet, his willful misrepresentation will not be forgotten.

[WaterDragon]

Evidently, Mr. Kay does not like being misused and abused by the liberal media to their own ends, and against U.S. national security.

[Stultis]

See Also:

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			Posted by JohnHuang2 On 11/04/2003 1:19 AM CST with 8 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | Kenneth R. Timmerman MEDIA MATTERSDavid Kay rebukes Washington PostWMD-search chief says reporter misidentified source in weapons hunt Posted: November 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2003 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The head of the CIA's Iraq Study Group that is investigating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs issued a stinging rebuke of the Washington Post on Saturday. David Kay alleged that Post reporter Barton Gellman knowingly misrepresented information he had gathered in Iraq about the hunt for Saddam's WMDs and had misidentified a key source as well as the information Kay had provided Gellman in an interview. Gellman's front-page story, which ran...
Washington Post runs a "correction" to their David Kay Story. ^
			Posted by Pikamax On 11/03/2003 10:51 AM CST with 2 comments WashingtonPost ^ | 10/25/03 | Barton Gellman _____Correction_____ An Oct. 26 article incorrectly described the size of the force searching for evidence of an Iraqi nuclear program. Of those hunting forbidden weapons in Iraq, 1 percent, not one-tenth of 1 percent, are devoted to the search for nuclear arms. The story also erred in describing the qualifications of William Domke, an employee of an Energy Department laboratory. He is an authority on Iraq's former centrifuge enrichment program, but he is not a physicist.

[r9etb]

If the stated errors and mischaracterizations are characteristic of Gellman's reporting, it's evident that he is either a.) incompetent, b.) promoting an agenda or c.) both of the above.

Or, more succinctly: Either he doesn't know what he's doing, or he does. Neither choice is very attractive....