Because the WH staffers are media savvy enough to realize that unless the tapes contain specific names, dates, times and other operational ("actionable") details of Saddam plots (or involvement in/foreknowlege of plots by affiliated groups), the MSM will (in their best, Harvard law-school professor manner) say that the tapes "only hint at, but do not prove, Saddam's involvement in....". So if, as may in fact be the case, Saddam and his henchmen are overheard talking about how Al-Qaeda or the jihadi network is going to blow up the Pentagon and the White House (two proposed targets of the 9/11 attacks), the MSM will say that this was an example of "Arab group think", that since both Saddam and the Jihadis hated the US Government, such a "prediction" was nothing more than an "educated guess", rather than gleanings from a terrorist grapevine of which Saddam was a part.
If the MSM is truly Bush's enemy ,and I believe they are, then why deal with them at all. Bush should strip the NYT, LAT, WP, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PMSNBC, PBS, TIME, NEWSPEAK, US SNOOZE AND WORLD REPORT, NPR, the BBC and the AP of their WH credentials and force them to get their WH news from FOX, the WASHINGTON TIMES and the NEW YORK POST.