[Just mythoughts]

"I disagree here people. Fox news is our beacon of info. This hurts them. You do not reveal background sources, even if they are lying. You go to jail to protect your sources, you don't run bold headlines proclaiming the fact that you are outing a background source. They screwed up big time."

Seems to me that we have witness Clarke make the claim that he was told to go and give background presenting only the "positive" about what was going on. He has accused the Bush administration of telling him to LIE.

Seems to me that if the Bush administration did not want to be sourced, that would have demanded, this would give credibility to the supposed "JOE WILSON" claim that the Bush administration was calling reporters outing his wife.

Rather having it known that this came from the Bush administration up front, sends a signal that we are playing hard ball.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

You don't go ON BACKGROUND with a pool of reporters!

[Ditto]

"I disagree here people. Fox news is our beacon of info. This hurts them. You do not reveal background sources, even if they are lying.

You are 100% wrong.

You are confusing a background briefing with a confidential source. Two different animals. One speaks as an anonymous source within an organization with the approval of that organization. The other is a "deep-throat" type source who is speaking without approval. It's the organization's call if they choose to release the name of the person doing the background briefing. It's between the reporter and the confidential informant on the release of their name.

[CyberAnt]

Oh for heavens' sake! This was not a "classified" conversation. This was a background briefing with a GROUP of news people. The WH owns the info - controls the info - they can release the info if they want!!

Fox didn't do anything wrong. Bob Kerry should be ashamed of himself for trying to imply that they did. And .. the 9/11 commission is going to about it from me in the morning.