Friday, May 05, 2006

Media Fails To Report Rumsfeld’s Misleading Claims From March 2003

While the media has been quick to cover McGovern’s accusation that Rumsfeld lied, many news accounts have failed to report Rumsfeld’s own words from March 2003.

Today’s media coverage of CIA veteran Ray McGovern’s tough questioning of Rumsfeld yesterday has surprisingly posed a great challenge to the media about how aggressively they would cover the episode.

To quickly recap yesterday’s events, McGovern asked Rumsfeld, “[W]hy did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary.” When Rumsfeld protested that he did not lie, McGovern presented the evidence, saying that Rumsfeld had claimed he knew where the WMD were. And McGovern was right:

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