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Edited on Wed Oct-13-04 08:42 PM by Monica_L
I saw Greg Thielman's talk at Penn this afternoon and he talked about his cancelled segment for CBS. I asked him after the talk why CBS would cancel his segment since what he knew about the Niger yellow-cake forgery was already common knowledge.
He gave me much food for thought. He said that in his interview they pointed out not only how patently obviously fake the NIger document was, but how rogue agents in the Pentagon had managed to stovepipe intel to the WH without the usual State Dept peer review. These, after all, are the guys that determine the motivations of the source as well as the evidence backing up the threat claims, yet this SOP was totally bypassed during the buildup to the Iraq invasion.
OK, around the same time that Thielman's interview with 60 minutes was about to air, the Dan Rather "smoking gun" documents about AWOL started hitting the airwaives.
Thielman sais CBS proceeded to delay for one week his interview so that the buzz surrounding the exclusivew Bush AWOL claims could dominate the airways. Lo and behold, the documents turn out to be "forgeries."
Rather than frame the debate that multiple people were coming forward to testify as to Bush's preferential treatment and dereliction of duty, documents stating the case were outed by RW sources as forgeries. The forgery issue -- once raised -- was allowed to frame the debate unlike it should have been years ago: that Bush slithered out of his TANG duty. They then forced Dan to apologize on air. So much for the liberal media.
CBS told Thielman that they didn't want to air another "forgery" story while Dan Rather's butt was hanging in the wind over the AWOL story. Hello neither of these stories was a actually a forgery story, although forgery was an element in each. Both were stories of how Bush consistently escapes the consequences of his actions whther they be ineptitude or outright corruption.
I asked Thielman why the commonly known Niger yellow cake forgery story could possibly give CBS pause to air. He said that although the forgery was common knowledge, his segment documented how totally inept the official CIA claim was, and not only that but how it had circumvented the standard STATE Dept. peer review process. In light of the WH claims that the Iraq War buildup was built on intel failures, why didn't the WH demand heads to roll on what turned out to be a very amateurish forgery? Why not demand that Italy investigate their ties to the forgery? Or other countries? Or our own Intel communtity?
Not only did CBS manage to kill the AWOL story which was heating up with disclosures from Bush family friends about connections which kept him out of Vietnam, they kept the lies about WMD under wraps and unlikely to be renewed by any other news source.
Now CBS postures as someone who was Parlocked by a VLWC (forged documents) to smear Bush, but legitimate claims about his AWOL status are Parlocked by the apology Dan Rather gave concering the documents whose contents are true, but whose authenticity is false.
The Niger yellowcake claim is thereby Hatfielded by CBS as being placed out of the realm of discussion by the "falsified" AWOL debacle. Nobody will now touch the Niger story which would have naturally led to the Plame scandal.
AWOL and NIger yellow cake (Plame): two very compelling stories of Bush corruption are permanently sidelined by yet another leaked forgery, which CBS allegedly could not/did not verify before airing it on national news.
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