[okie01]

AP’s own translation of the Arabic in the document indicates that all the points of information in it come from the AP wire story below, which was distributed worldwide on July 12, 2000.

Did anybody doubt that the reference was to an actual AP story? Or contend that AP had done anything wrong in distributing the article?

So, why does Ms. Wagner belabor this point?

And why does she never address the phrase that was actually at issue: We have learned from one of our sources (in whom the degree of trust is good) who works for the American news agency Associated Press...

There is a rather clear connotation here that "one of our sources" is a.) on the Iraqi payroll (or is, at least, an Iraqi sympathizer) and b.) works for AP. That would tend to make him/her a spy, would it not?

Hmmmmmmmmm. I wonder how Ms. Wagner failed to grasp this point...

[jveritas]

That is exactly the whole point. The AP employee spied for Saddam intelligence and the document is very clear about it. As I said AP explanation of the document is very lame and laughable.

[Yardstick]

So, why does Ms. Wagner belabor this point?

Ssshhhhhh. Ms. Wagner's busy beating a straw man.