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News not in the news
May. 14th, 2005 11:58 amA recently-revealed British memo regarding a high-level meeting with the White House in July 2002 states "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD [weapons of mass destruction]. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
Though it is widely believed now that intelligence was deliberately distorted to support the case for war, the White House's stance is still that such claims are nonsense and unfounded. The memo also contradicts Bush's repeated claim that he had not decided to go to war at that time. The UK has confirmed the authenticity of the document.
On 5/6 89 members of Congress signed a letter calling for an investigation into the memo.
Editor&Publisher, a journal covering the newspaper industry itself, carries a story discussing both the above news and the fact that it went virtually unreprted in the US for the last 10 days.
Though it is widely believed now that intelligence was deliberately distorted to support the case for war, the White House's stance is still that such claims are nonsense and unfounded. The memo also contradicts Bush's repeated claim that he had not decided to go to war at that time. The UK has confirmed the authenticity of the document.
On 5/6 89 members of Congress signed a letter calling for an investigation into the memo.
Editor&Publisher, a journal covering the newspaper industry itself, carries a story discussing both the above news and the fact that it went virtually unreprted in the US for the last 10 days.
