From the story....
A top foreign policy adviser to Obama sat in on the meetings between the candidate and Iraqi officials this summer and said no such conversations occurred, the campaign said Monday
Ahh... the famous “unnamed adviser” backs up Bambi's story
top foreign policy adviser to Obama sat........and denied the story.
My concern remains that the POST author needed to provide readers with more details about his interview with the Foreign Minister.
That actually was a very odd part of the story.
Literally, the journalist has written that the Barack Obama campaign says that there was an advisor in the meeting (unnamed) and that this advisor says Obama didn’t say anything.
But I presume the campaign also said that Obama was in the meeting, and that Obama says he didn’t say anything.
But since it’s the CAMPAIGN giving the report, if they were lying about what Obama said, why wouldn’t they lie about what the “advisor” said.
So, why isn’t the advisor quoted? Why doesn’t the article say “the advisor says”?
Worse, why isn’t the advisor named? This isn’t a secret source — the OBAMA CAMPAIGN is releasing the information. So why didn’t the journalist insist on speaking with the advisor, and providing his name?
Very strange.
I doubt any news outlet would debunk a claim against Palin by saying “It’s not true, the campaign says so”.