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CIA: ABCNEWS is Lying About Bin Laden Escape to Pakistan
Central Intelligence Agency ^
| January 15, 2002
| Bill Harlow
Posted on 01/15/2002 5:57:13 PM PST by Timesink
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To: Timesink
Isn't it odd that the CIA would issue a press release on this matter?
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01/15/2002 6:18:17 PM PST
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Ranger
To: Timesink
What makes this interesting is Brit Hume's comment that such an official statement is very rare for the CIA.
To: Urbane_Guerilla
Sounds like brilliant reasoning to me! Wow!
To: Timesink
Commie lies
To: Timesink
Don't these CIA people understand about revisionist history before it happens that we have going on now? They better learn to play along or else face the wrath of the socialists.
To: Timesink
CIA: BIN LADEN ESCAPED (ABC NEWS):
To fool U.S. forces in the area, the CIA believes, bin Laden left behind a tape-recorded message that was transmitted only after he was long gone. This was from the ABC report yesterday. It was not even attributed to unnamed sources and there were no quotes.
Also, why would OBL need to fool the CIA if he was already -- "long gone".
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To: all
OK, folks...I have a question. There have been some great reasons given here for the government to intentionally keep us in the dark about Bin Laden. But, here seems to be one big negative in doing this and that is that Bush keeps telling the American people that we will definitely get him. Do you think that Americans will stop trusting him or respecting him if he keeps saying that, but we don't appear to have found him?
To: dighton
"Worth resetting in big type" Again...
ABC did not contact the Agency about this allegation before airing it.
And again...
ABC did not contact the Agency about this allegation before airing it.
To: Timesink
Agency RARELY speaks to or about media. When they do, it is usually because the media got story very wrong.
ABC's problem now is they have egg on face and they can't get anyone from other DC agency, (DOD, WH, State, etc.) to say, "Yep, that what the CIA told us!
In network circles... many pipes will be smoked ofer this... as the NNAs would say.....
To: MindBender26
Agency RARELY speaks to or about media. When they do, it is usually because the media got story very wrong. What reason would the CIA have to correct the report? Does it need to make sure no one thinks they are leaking classified information? Otherwise, why not let the story be out there, even if it isn't true? I think it just helps to confuse BL, which is a good thing, right?
To: Timesink
Some Freeper posted it from Debka and some ABC guy read it on The Free Republic and assumed it was true.
To: cantfindagoodscreenname
Let's see, in 4 months, we have overthrown a regime half a world away, lost a total of <10 US KIA, recovered gobbs of hard intel, scared the sierra out of a few other bad woggies, set overthrow of Saddam in motion and cemented relationships with the Pakis, the Uzbekies, and most of the other 'Stans... while at the same time garnering the thanks of the Indians for defusing their little border squable with the Pakis, and diminished global perception of the USSWas, PRC and their friends, the DNC. Note that the Kim De Jour is even rather quiet in the DPRK?
Can we please have another month or so to get OBL, pretty please???
P.S. ILIKEYOURSCRRENNAME
To: Ranger
Believe you are seeing this Administration including the CIA striking back at the incompetence of the news media and their spin when reporting!
I say more power to the CIA in setting the record straight that ABC did not contact them and ran with the story! About time!
To: cantfindagoodscreenname
Why correct report1. Prevent internal US SOG confusion. (Bad intel worse than no intel.)
2. P*ss off Jennings and ABC.
Sounds like two good reasons to me!
To: HaveGunWillTravel
Some Freeper posted it from Debka and some ABC guy read it on The Free Republic and assumed it was true. You have a good point there. It takes a certain amount of skill to cruse FRee Republic - something a left wing socialist doesn't have. You can't "feel" your way through a computer screen!
To: MindBender26
Actually, P*ss ON Jennings and ABC.
To: Timesink
Disinformation lives on at ABC....
Pity, we shall never really know if at sometime in the future, they actually DO report anything factual about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. ABC has steadily declining credibility, which now is somewhat less than most of the widely circulated tabloids.
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To: Timesink
WOW! Thanks for posting this!
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