The reporter who unleashed the misleading Washington Post story about the trailers found in Iraq has written another article defending his original report. As was pointed out yesterday, the article misleads by implying that somehow the president of the United States was supposed to be aware of a minority field report, produced for the DIA, before he spoke out about a CIA white paper. Mind you, the field report arrived in Washington the day before the white paper was released.
Joby Warrick neglects to mention that he was scooped on his great revelation by the New York Times, three years before Mr. Warrick gave us his spin on the matter. He also (factually) says the article never said that Bush lied.
After all, it was only implied by the way the article was structured.
Mr. Warrick mislead by misdirection yesterday, today he hides behind the statement that it was "unclear" if the White House was aware of the field report.
That the CIA got it wrong is undoubtedly a fact. That it is reasonable to expect the President of the United States to know about a minority, dissenting field report generated the day before a white paper is issued is quite obviously absurd. And I am quite sure Mr. Warrick knows that.
What's "unclear" here is if Mr. Warrick was aware that he was writing a hit piece or just that bad a writer.
“What’s “unclear” here is if Mr. Warrick was aware that he was writing a hit piece or just that bad a writer.”
Well, Mr Warrick seems to write well enough, and clear enough to express himself when he wants to. No, it’s not that he’s a bad writer.
Clearly then, Warrick was fully aware of what he was doing: making propaganda. His editors knew it and approved it too. It’s one more brick in the Left’s wall of opposition to the Bush Administration.
There is no straw so thin and weak, no argument so specious, that the WaPo’s Warrick and his ilk in MSM will not stoop to twisting insignificant bits of data into an attack on GWB. They are guilty of exactly the “crime” they allege against GWB.
Warrick and his ilk are soldiers in the Left’s alliance with Islamic terrorism, they’re Al Qaeda’s 5th column here in America.