Finally! Newsweek actually prints it.... Bush Admin. hyped intelligence about Iraq..

[Danieljay]

"the briefing wound up raising new questions about whether the Bush administration is hyping intelligence about Iran in much the same way it did about Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq four years ago"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17265231/site/newsweek/

Has anyone actually stated it in the past or simply alluded to it 'perhaps' being the case?

[jobycom]

1. Closer, but "hyped" still doesn't have the full connotation of "Made up out of thin air"

that I would like to see.

This is also typical conservative media SOP. Repeat the Republican lies, cover for them for years, then one day suddenly start reporting it as an historical fact--too late to have done anything about it, you know. Shame no one brought it up back then, except those wackos who were just accidentally right. Well, let's move on, and ignore those wackos who were absolutely right and listen to more of those nice, decent, folk you want to have a beer with who were, incidentally, wrong about everything else. Better to listen to the wrong nice guy than the right wacko one.

[Danieljay]

2. very good point! It is progress however. n/t

[rock]

3. The 'publicans have made the continuum

from spin to lying extremely vague. When do ludicrous exaggerations become lies? We used to have a press that would call you when you over-stepped.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. They used to call it the "credibility gap." n/t

[ThomCat]

8. Unfortunately, "For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill."

and the MSM is more than willing to be deliberately gullible when their corporate culture tells them to be.

[jobycom]

6. The press is still willing to call exagerations lies.

Only against Democrats who are neither exagerating nor lying, though. Ask Al Gore.

[jaysunb]

5. Isikoff is nuts

for trying to pretend this was just some low level spokesperson mis-stating facts.

An anonymous U.S. official, assigned to provide a recent “background” briefing to the news media in Baghdad, strayed from his script and overstated evidence linking Iranian leaders to weapons found in Iraq, according to four U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the matter.

It was a trial ballon that backfired ! that's it.

[malaise]

7. PHEW

Maybe in six more years they'll Bushco habitual LIARS

[Captain Hilts]

9. The "Conventional Wisdom" column is still playing the Pelosi Plane falsehood. nt

[baldguy]

10. The Bush Regime lied.

Newsweek helped them spread the lies.

[gratuitous]

11. Karl will snap them back in line

It's not permissible to intimate that the Bush administration is anything but four-square solid on the truth on all issues. Oh sure, there may be some "misstatements" or "clarifications" that will be acknowledged, but mostly it's your fault (meaning the gullible public) for making connections that aren't there -- like between 9/11, Al Qaeda and Saddam's former regime.

We hyped ourselves into thousands of needless deaths and half a trillion squandered dollars.

[Marnieworld]

12. Let me know when they say they invented the intelligence

To hype intelligence implies that it was actual intelligence, in the traditional sense, that they were promoting.

No. They created intelligence when the actual intelligence did not support their pre-determined agenda. They created their own intelligence apparatus that would manufacture the evidence they wanted when the truth did not suit them.

It's a start to talk about the manipulation. When we talk about how they invented intelligence to wage war then our country will be on the irght track. Until then we are still locked into the very same situation that we were in 2002.