Case Open: Why is the press avoiding the Weekly Standard's intelligence scoop?

Slate ^ | 11/18/03 | Jack Shafer

[Gothmog]

Het, even Slate noticed. But, will anyone notice Slate noticed unless it's posted somewhere where people will notice it.

[buffyt]

IF it had been a memo that pointed a guilty finger at President Bush it would be all over all the main network TV channels, CNN, and all the front pages of all the newspapers.....

[unsycophant]

Bookmarked.

[bannie]

"Why?"

Is that a rhetorical question?

;)

[friendly]

Case Open: Why is the press avoiding the Weekly Standard's intelligence scoop?

The press is dominated by democrats and other sworn enemies of the United States.

[Moose4]

My God, Shafer wrote something that I actually agree with, and something that didn't proclaim George Bush as the anti-Christ. I'll be looking out my window all day for flying pigs.

}:-)4

[sirchtruth]

Seriously, we should all contact this guy and give him congradulations for pointing out the obvious.

[Semper Paratus]

"If a Slate fell in the Internet would anybody hear it?"

[buffyt]

LOOK OUT! Incoming!!!

[petercooper]

media bias. why else.

[Angelus Errare]

Why indeed?

[Gothmog]

Yes, and we're all having a good time laughing about it, ha ha ha.

[The Great RJ]

I beleived long before the war with Iraq that President Bush had confirmed this link between Bin Laden's terrorists and Iraq, but couldn't reveal it to protect US intelligence sources.

President Bush is a man of integrety who would not have commited US forces to a war in Iraq simply to show his macho as is insinuated by the liberals. On the contrary, Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan to take pressure off his Monica affair and likely killed some innocent people in the process.

[Gothmog]

Oh yeah, here's a link to a Tony Blankely op-ed on the same subject for those who are interested:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1024604/posts

[Peach]

But the press is all over Bush when it looks like he may have compromised a CIA agent. Sheesh.

How about an organized Freepmail to the networks?

[syriacus]

Many a reporter has hitched a ride onto Page One with the leak of intelligence much rawer than the stuff in Feith's memo.

Some more reporters should have been mentioning the memo, if only to question its legitimacy.

They didn't even do that...which makes it clear that their bosses don't want the memo to get air time or media space.

I'm sure that, somewhere, some liberal media honcho is trying to find something connected with the memo that can blame Bush big-time.

If the honcho or an underling succeeds in pointing a finger at Bush, we will hear about the memo.

[bert]

....why else......

How about fear?

[ImpBill]

GMTA. My exact thoughts. "Why" used with anything concerning the press is indeed rhetorical.

[CheezyD]

bookmark

[Gothmog]

Not only the lib media, but the CIA bureaucrats, Sen. Rockefeller and Sen. Roberts. Roberts is still wasting time being bipartisan, I guess. From the WPost 11/18/03

"The CIA will ask the Justice Department to investigate the leak of a 16-page classified Pentagon memo that listed and briefly described raw agency intelligence on any relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, according to congressional and administration sources.

"In addition, the leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), are considering making their own request for a Justice investigation. The top-secret memo was attached to an Oct. 27 letter to them from Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54452-2003Nov17.html