Saddam General: Newsweek Translation of Saddam Tapes Wrong

The Reality Check ^ | March 23, 2006 | Jim Kouri, CPP

[Old Sarge]

Others believe Newsweek may have a vested interest in perpetuating the story that Iraq had no WMD.

DING-DING-DING!

The WINNAH!

[nuconvert]

So, how much publicity is this story going to get?

[Aquinasfan]

So, how much publicity is this story going to get?

Fox might mention something.

[CondorFlight]

Another Dan Rather moment?

[fooman]

ping

[Mo1]

Others believe Newsweek may have a vested interest in perpetuating the story that Iraq had no WMD.

Kind of makes a person go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[EmilyGeiger]

Well this is a shock...

[reformedliberal]

I saw a portion of this on FNC, so that is some coverage. ABC is reporting on this, too. So the other outlets are going to have to compete.

This quote: the CIA’s clandestine war against the White House means the agency cannot be trusted for an honest account of what’s in this material. is, IMO, very news worthy. It is provocative. Someone who wants to make sure they stay employed w/a byline should investigate this. In any event, the media has succeeded in making themselves the story, which must be uncomfortable for them, not to mention very poor journalism. Perhaps they will realize it would be good for them to change the subject about now.

Sada is selling a book. I hope he has a good PR agent. A news conference would be nice.

[OldFriend]

Trusting Newsweak could be deadly dangerous to your health.

Wasn't that long ago they were confirming the flushing of a toilet at Guantanamo.

[.cnI redruM]

I doubt anyone at the major networks speaks Arabic well enough to stage a Dan Rather moment. I think it's more like the way the Prussians manipulated the wording of an intercepted document to keep the British out of the Franco-Prussian War.

[OldFriend]

Trusting Newsweak could be deadly dangerous to your health.

Wasn't that long ago they were confirming the flushing of a koran in the toilet at Guantanamo.

[P-40]

This quote: the CIA’s clandestine war against the White House

That statement is...odd.

[betsyross1776]

Everybody remember who was the one who wanted the cia hiring to be people of liberal quality. Yes, this always goes back to ol Clintie and his screwball commie wife. They are the ones who revamped the cia. Clinton made another mess. We now have a cia that can't catch a cat in a garbage can looking for old fish , and if someone else does, claim the cat was abused. Every thing goes back to the mess Clinton and his pro communist friends like kerry have done in the past . But of course, blame it on Bush and don't believe one of the guys who are sitting right next to Saddam , after all only Clinton and his liberals are right.

[sinbad17]

I find it difficult to believe that some young energetic newman isn't digging into this thoroughly. The one that would come up with an honest, valid interpretation of what was what surely would make a name for himslf the envy of the profession.

[Fresh Wind]

Yet most of the 2 million documents have not been explored or even translated.

The vast majority of government documents are totally meaningless, retained only because it's easier to store everything than to make a decision on what to discard. That applies as much to the former Iraqi government as it does to our own.

When we got these documents, we took everything we could find, even the purchase orders for pens and paper. To say these documents have not been "explored" is probably a misstatement. More likely, a screening process has taken place so that the translation effort concentrates on documents that are more likely to have important contents.

[topher]

More SLIMY reporting by MSM but this time it is not the NY Slimes (Times), but Newsweek.

Maybe they hired fired people from the NY Slimes at Newsweek.

Maybe someone should test the toll free/800 number at Newsweek to see if they know how to answer the phone...

[newcthem]

Sorry, but if Sadam showed which rock the WMD are hidden under, the MSM would procame " Sadam Lies!!!"

[JennysCool]

In any event, the media has succeeded in making themselves the story, which must be uncomfortable for them, not to mention very poor journalism.

One thing the media always wants to be is "hip" and "cutting-edge" and I get the feeling they're sloooooowly beginning to realize that, by parroting the moonbattery of old hippies (which is the vast majority of the liberal anti-war fanatics), they are more and more being perceived as about as cutting-edge as Bob Schieffer. They're about the last bunch to realize it is the liberals they've put their stock in who have become the strident, constipated "Establishment."

[eyespysomething]

Saddam General: Newsweek Translation of Saddam Tapes Wrong

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