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February 9, 2007
(AP) 'Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel' - Did It Really Say That?
Topics: IraqNo, what the AP says in its headlines is simply not the truth, even though that's what the AP headline reads.
Fuzzilicious Thinking summarizes the difference:
As reported by Powerline yesterday, the AP published a story by Robert Burns with the odd headline "Pentagon Says Pre-War Intel Not Illegal."
Some Democrats also have contended that Feith misled Congress about the basis of the administration's assertions on the threat posed by Iraq, but the Pentagon investigation did not support that. [This statement is key.]Powerline describes it as the resolution of an example of internecine bureaucratic warfare, a fight over who gets to interpret CIA intelligence.
This morning the AP put up a re-arranged version of this same story by the same writer. New headline--"Report says Pentagon manipulated intel." And the entire story has been turned on its head:
A "very damning" report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence.Interesting difference. Even more interesting is The first bolded statement above no longer appears in the report..
Uncle Jimbo wants to know if the AP ever bothers to report facts any more or are they just an opinion and propaganda service.
I'd like to thank the AP for providing so much material for bloggers to rip on, and for making it so easy. Especially on slow news days when the hottest item on Fox and CNN is the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Posted by Abdul at February 9, 2007 2:21 PM
Thank you so much for the link. Hoever, I erred in one thing that I corrected very soon after I posted it (unfortunately, not before you reproduced it): That first bolded quote IS in the second version of the story. I somehow missed it at first.
Posted by: FbL at February 9, 2007 5:58 PM
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