The Old Media
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The Old Media.
" The Old Media
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All 3 networks tonight were concerned with a " bombshell, " but , it wasn't sarin gas in a shell.
It was a memo from White House counsel, Alberto Gonzalez in 2002 advising President Bush that parts of the Geneva Convention were too quaint for our modern times.
Gonzalez thought that Al Queda and the Taliban should be exempt from the provisions requiring that prisoners be supplied with " sports uniforms, commissary privileges and access to chemistry labs."
Imagine that.
Gonzalez stands by the memo and says his recommendations on sporting equipment and gym time only applied to Al Queda and not Iraqis.
Gonzalez basically said the Geneva Convention ties the US's hands, when it comes to questioning al Queda.
After the weeping and wailing by Brokaw and Rather and Jennings, that this showed the new interrogation techniques went right to the top- the networks got around to covering the sarin shell.
After his report, Brian Ross of ABC mumbled this, almost as an afterthought.
The discovery of the sarin shell was especially alarming,said Ross,considering that intel agencies from neighboring countries had warned the US that al Zawahiri was planning a massive attack on the troops at Coalition HQ-using chemical weapons.
This bombshell came 10 minutes into the show, after the obligatory " gay wedding good, us troops bad " pieces on the nightly news.