Tuesday, July 15, 2003

A Lot More Stuff at Media Whores Online


Some admit their "technical accuracies" are also lies:

"I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight.

"As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship with Monica Lewinsky. While, technically, my answers were legally accurate, I was not entirely truthful with my information."

- William Jefferson Clinton (August 1998)

...while others don't:

"It didn't rise to the standard of a presidential speech, but it's not known, for example, that it was inaccurate. In fact, people think it was technically accurate."

- Donald Rumsfeld (July 2003)

AND... As the lying Bush White House continues to attempt to obfuscate its way out of its credibility crisis, Senator Carl Levin repeatedly articulates the case against the [Bush] regime - a case not diminished by the "big picture" of whether "it's good that Saddam is gone."

LEVIN: Well, I would like to wait for the end of the investigation to reach a conclusion as to whether Tenet should go. I'm obviously dissatisfied with him in this regard, but also in other aspects as well. But who is pushing Tenet? This statement that Tenet made and that the White House has reacted to really raises the key question here. Tenet was pushing back against pressure from the White House. But who in the White House, or who at the National Security Council, was pressing him to make a statement that they didn't believe was accurate, by putting the words in the mouth of the British?

BLITZER: Does Condoleezza Rice, Senator Levin, share some of the blame for this flap?

LEVIN: Even to this day she says that the statement was technically accurate. She doesn't yet acknowledge what is so obvious, it seems to me, that you cannot make a statement which you believe is untrue by saying somebody else has learned that something has happened, creating an impression that it is true, a false impression that something's true.

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