Levin and the media both must get their comeuppance. Chris Wallace has refuted Feith's denial that he made an "operational relationship" statement in the two Sundays since the Feith interview.
WaPo quasi-retracts page-one story about Feith Iraq/AQ intel
WaPo via Hot Air ^
WaPo Corrects Feith Scoop: Almost All the Quotes Were Wrong
NRO ^ | 2/9/07 Posted on 02/09/2007 7:14:49 PM EST by bnelson44
The AP Takes Dictation From Democrat Sen. Levin | Sweetness & Light The two page executive summary of the IG’s report is here
The original pdf file can be found here.
Transcript: Former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith on 'FNS'
Fox News ^ | Sunday , February 11, 2007
A Glimpse Into the Sausage Factory PowerLine 2-12-07
One of our readers has now penetrated inside the Post through an email exchange with Jeff Smith, one of the Post reporters "credited" with the story. Smith is unhappy at being associated with the debacle. This is what Smith emailed to our reader:
I agree with you that this was an egregious error. I also had nothing to do with it. All I did was obtain a copy of the unclassified summary of the IG report and write a precisely correct account, which I turned over to the other reporters. I'm not happy my name was put on that story by the editors, and I was astonished by the mistake. I blew the whistle on it internally. So don't attribute the mistake to me.
Cheers,
Jeff Smith
So someone--Pincus is an obvious candidate--had the two-page public portion of the IG report, and also had an accurate account thereof, but nevertheless managed to misrepresent the report's contents to make it look more critical of Feith's group than it actually was. Is there any possible explanation for that "egregious" and "astonish[ing]" error, other than a political agenda that trumps all else?
Douglas Feith On The CIA, The WMD, And The Information War
hughhewitt.townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2007 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 02/13/2007 9:00:13 PM EST by Mo1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784394/posts
Douglas J. Feith: Tough questions we were right to ask
The Sacramento Bee ^ | Thursday, February 15, 2007 | By Douglas J. Feith
Posted on 02/15/2007 11:14:14 AM EST by april15Bendovr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785364/posts
Do you think any of the left wing blogs are talking about the facts here on this or do they continue to play search and avoid mental hopscotch with their conscience so they can coexist peacefully with their own leftist agenda?