"Sources" inside the White House....

[RBHam]

A panel recently criticized the WH for Bush's "misleading statements and exaggerations"...

Suspected CIA mole Suzanne Malveaux, however, is reporting to us that "sources" in the White House say there was no "intention" - that it was all just a "goof" - "oops", as it were. The same "source" says that Simple Scotty McClellan has said that the American people already know all this and its "old news"...

There...

Bush is still God, and CNN is still helping to carve out his teflon-like reputation.

[Cry Freedom]

1. Why do people @ DU put more

stock in CNN than in Faux? I don't get it - they both suck!

[mouse7]

6. 12/21 CNN lead story after Kurds caught Saddam-b4 Orange?

Last Sunday, you want to know the lead story CNN was running after the news had broken in mainstream European newspapers that the Kurds, not US troops, had caught Saddam before Ridge boosted the alert color to orange?

Al Gore's son arrested for pot.

[rman]

7. CNN 's got Christiane

who actually dares to critsize her own employer.
Surely CNN is compromised as well, it's just being a little less cooperative, and they'r supposed to come across as less extreme than FOX.

bless the independent press

[amber dog democrat]

2. Consider the source

of this propaganda. " sources inside the White House " are not credible.
simply not credible. Neither is the media to whom the leaks are directed.

Move along folks, nothing to see here..

[UTUSN]

3. Shrub Can *Lie* w/ Impunity

******QUOTE*****

SCOWCROFT Board: Shrub Lied, But Not Deliberately (Yellow Cake)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=956207
It only took Poppy one lie ("Read my lips...") to lose his greedy votes, but Shrub has apparently acquired the Platinum Card for getting away with raps on the knuckles.

******QUOTE*****

White House Faulted on Uranium Claim
Intelligence Warnings Disregarded, President's Advisory Board Says
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 24, 2003; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25935-2003Dec23?language=printer
.... After reviewing the matter for several months, the intelligence board -- chaired by former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft -- has determined that there was "no deliberate effort to fabricate" a story, the source said. Instead, the source said, the board believes the White House was so anxious "to grab onto something affirmative" about Hussein's nuclear ambitions that it disregarded warnings from the intelligence community that the claim was questionable. ....

The board shared its findings with Bush earlier this month. It is the first government body to complete its inquiry into an episode that buttressed criticism by lawmakers and others that the administration exaggerated intelligence to make the case for war. Word of its findings has also circulated within the White House and on Capitol Hill. The White House declined to comment on the board's findings.

The findings of the advisory board do not appear to add many new details about the uranium episode, but they make it clear that the White House should share blame with the CIA for allowing the questionable material into the speech. CIA Director George J. Tenet and deputy national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley have accepted responsibility for allowing the assertion into the address. ....

One enduring mystery is which White House official was responsible for promoting the material in question. Senate hearings have indicated there was a disagreement between a CIA analyst and the White House National Security Council staff member about how the material was handled. "One side did not coordinate with the other," said the source familiar with the advisory board's inquiry. ....
*****UNQUOTE****

[RBHam]

4. One enduring mystery is which White House official was responsible...

Operation Enduring Mystery...

just another in a long line, at least since JFK was offed...

[MrPrax]

5. There are no 'sources'

I was under the impression that the Shrub Admin was probably the tightest ship ever run...almost draconian and fanatic about unauthorized 'leaks'...

So one imagines that 'unnamed' sources are just doing their spin, float or fog routine, depending on which problem requires which method

[SoCalDem]

8. Suzanne Malveaux is a journalist

Her being a CIA mole is a new one on me :)