Comments on: Does Fred Hiatt Even Read the Washington Post?

By: Beware The Man » Jane Has it Right Again

Beware The Man » Jane Has it Right Again — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:14:55 +0000

[…] What Jane is saying here is that the Washington Post, you know, the one of Woodward and Bernstein, has jumped the shark in terms of their editorial guys (and gals!) bothering to read what their news guys (and gals!) are writing. (How normal!) And that a 6-pager in the Big Mag about a single blogger is primo-fascist evidence that the blogs are having their say. […]

By: Joe Yowsa

Joe Yowsa — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:53:03 +0000

The weird thing is that it took the WaPo about three years to finally admit Joe Wilson is a liar. I don’t get it. The WaPo and the NYT were two of the three big MSM outfits to sponsor his lies in the first place. It was almost immediately known he was a liar and the SSCI report in July, 2004 should have left no doubt in anybody’s mind. The NYT is toughing it out pretending the naked emperor has clothes. But why on earth did the WaPo wait until now? Weird.

By: appletree » Blog Archive » New York Times vs Washington Post on Government Leaks

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:25:49 +0000

[…] A recent Washington Post editorial, “A Good Leak,” compliments the Bush administration for wisely leaking data from a National Intelligence Estimate to reporters. In response, the New York Times issued an editorial, “A Bad Leak,” which explained the fact that the “leaks” authorized by the Bush administration were not leaks at all, but disinformation provided to reporters in order to deceive the public. The common term for disinformation supplied to the media in this manner is a “plant.” The Post thought that the “leak” of the NIE data was necessary to make the President’s case for war in Iraq. Bush, explains the Post, had to communicate why “he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons.” One problem: the Bush administration didn’t believe that. As Jane Hamsher points out, internal documents reveal that by the time this bit of disinformation was leaked, the administration knew that Hussein was not rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. This is clear from reading the very document from which the “leaked” information was selected. […]

By: cluelessnomore

cluelessnomore — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:42:53 +0000

Exellent analysis. So refreshing.

I’m so sick of the MSM corporate owned, lying whores! Actually, that’s unfair to whores who are far more respectable!

By: Malcolm Saldanha

Malcolm Saldanha — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:22:46 +0000

I’ll go out on a limb and make a hopeful prediction. Bush and co. will before long resign. President Bush in his “staged” live appearances appears even much more defensive than his usual petty, arrogant self usually does.

I think that the man is actually finally beginning to crack (actually, I think that he’s been on “crack” since before he got in office, but that’s besides the point), as witness his petulant, arrogant responses to recent
questioners. And Lord knows how much Shrub loves the live, unscripted Q and A format. His axe is gored and he knows it and it’s time for him and the whole lot of them to just GO!!

By: GOPHater

GOPHater — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:07:00 +0000

The Washington Post is the print version of FauxNews. Anyone who purchases this “news”paper is an idiot. Anyone who believes anything they read in it is a fool. Enough said.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:05:40 +0000

Jane, I couldn’t resist quoting you and you may see a little more traffic to this page as result. In my piece on Buzzflash’s GOP Hypocrite of the week, I mis-spelled your name. For that I apologize.

The link:

http://www.buzzflash.com/contr.....06130.html

By: colinjames

colinjames — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:05:56 +0000

I like your style. Un-friggin-believable what b.s. they’re sellin these days for news- it’s like they’re in an alternate dimension, seriously!

By: This is my Name

This is my Name — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:20:15 +0000

Great article. The WaPo has gone to the dogs! Red America, Fred Hiatt, Brady, all a bunch of conservative ball-sucking fuck-ups. What a disgrace.

By: Caro

Caro — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:35:11 +0000

PATRICK FITZGERALD: OOPS, NEVER MIND [Byron York]

An embarrassing move this afternoon from CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In his now-famous court filing in which he said that former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby testified that he had been authorized to leak portions of the then-classified National Intelligence Estimate, Fitzgerald wrote, “Defendant understood that he was to tell [New York Times reporter Judith] Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”

That sentence led a number of reporters and commentators to suggest that, beyond the issue of the leak itself, the administration was lying about the NIE, because the African uranium segment was not in fact among the NIE’s key judgments. For example, in a front page story on Sunday, the Washington Post reported:

At Cheney’s instruction, Libby testified, he told Miller that the uranium story was a “key judgment” of the intelligence estimate, a term of art indicating there was consensus on a question of central importance.
In fact, the alleged effort to buy uranium was not among the estimate’s key judgments, which were identified by a headline and bold type and set out in bullet form in the first five pages of the 96-page document.

A few hours ago, however, Fitzgerald sent a letter to judge Reggie Walton, asking to correct his filing. The letter reads:

We are writing to correct a sentence from the Government’s Response to Defendant’s Third Motion to Compel Discovery, filed on April 5, 2006. The sentence, which is the second sentence of the second paragraph on page 23, reads, ‘Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.” That sentence should read, “Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, some of the key judgments of the NIE, and that the NIE stated that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”
Never mind.