News Flash: The Press Omits, Distorts
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Posted: 06/10/08
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News Flash: The Press Omits, Distorts
By Thomas E. Brewton
No surprise, here's another example of left-wing liberal media
presenting only a selected part of the facts in order to mislead
readers, when all of the facts are a matter of public record.
An Associated Press article headlined McClellan to testify before
House in CIA leak case ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/
ap_on_go_co/cia_leak_probe ) includes the following sentence:
"Plame's CIA identity was leaked to the news media by several top
Bush administration officials in 2003, including Libby and former top
White House political adviser Karl Rove."
In as much as the story first was published by Robert Novak, who had
first hand knowledge about the supposed revelation of Valerie Plame's
involvement, let's let him tell the full story.
The background is that CIA agent Valerie Plame's recommended her
husband for an intelligence gathering mission, that the husband used
in a New York Times op-ed piece to assert that the Bush
administration had lied about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain
materials for nuclear weapons.
Later Congressional investigations demonstrated that both Valerie
Plame and her husband Joe Wilson had lied about the story in several
critical particulars.
Here's what Mr. Novak has to say ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060101915.html ) about the
affair and about Scott McClellan's best-selling work of fiction:
"In Scott McClellan's purported tell-all memoir of his trials as
President Bush's press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage's role leaking to me Valerie
Plame's identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic
version of the Plame affair, in keeping with the overall tenor of the
book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's
Culture of Deception."
"Although the media response has dwelled on McClellan's criticism of
Bush's road to war, the CIA leak case is the heart of this book. On
July 14, 2003, one day before McClellan took a press secretary's job
for which many colleagues felt he was unqualified, I wrote a column
asserting that while at the CIA Plame had suggested her Democratic
partisan husband, retired diplomat Joseph Wilson, for a sensitive
intelligence mission. That story would make McClellan's three years
at the briefing room podium a misery, leading to his dismissal and
now his bitter retort.
"In claiming he was misled about the Plame affair, McClellan mentions
Armitage only twice. Armitage being the leaker undermines the
Democratic theory, now accepted by McClellan, that Bush, Vice
President Cheney and political adviser Karl Rove aimed to
delegitimize Wilson as a war critic. The way that McClellan handles
the leak leads former colleagues to suggest he could not have written
this book by himself."
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