McClatchy's Nukes & Spooks: Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened

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Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened

Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Why? It's not news. At least not to some of us who've covered the story from the start.

(Click here, here and here to get just a taste of what we mean).

Second, we find it a wee bit preposterous -- and we are being diplomatic here -- that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! -- defended President Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to "set the record straight" (and sell a few books) five years and more after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying to stabilize that country.

But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.

Bush loyalists have responded in three ways:...http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nationalsecurity/

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1. UNFORTUNATELY,

most of the u.s. electorate has never heard of mcclatchy!

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3. Yes, it's unfortunate but gold is where you find it & waste too.

In the lead up to the invasion of Iraq the gold was in Knight-Ridder & the waste was in the NYT & WP.

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4. Well - it's the second largest newsgroup - but it was KnightRidder when the DC Bureau

was cooking the truth and the rest of the corporate media refused to acknowledge their news stories.

Landay and Strobel are true journalists and it was after Landay wrote about the Downing Street Memos that Bush's buddies who owned stock in KnightRidder forced the company to break up and sell, with most of the papers going to McClatchy.

The DC Bureau has been the only real journalism McClatchy has going, but McClatchy is in the process of consolidating papers REGIONALLY and I expect they are only letting the DC Bureau have some sway now to maintain credibility till they can force them under, too.

That is when I expect the true journalists like Landay, Strobel and Walcott to join up with other truthtellers pushed out of DC - like Robert Parry.

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