(Via FreeSpeech) The Boston Herald editorializes on the al Qaeda-Saddam memo:
Reports of events in Iraq and U.S. policy there have long been skewed by an oppositional media establishment. A new example makes the point very well."All the news that fits".
Prestige outlets in Washington - the big newspapers, the newsmagazines and the broadcast networks - have been molasses-slow getting to an astonishing story in the Nov. 24 issue of The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication. The issue was mailed on Monday, Nov. 17, and was available on the Internet a couple of days earlier. Nonprestige outlets, including Internet ``blogs'' (personal Web pages) and conservative publications, were the only ones to notice at first.
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The importance of the letter is not particular reports but the sheer scope of the evidence. It would fully entitle any president to treat the possibility of a connection with the utmost gravity, and certainly raises questions about the quality of intelligence analysis.
The public ought to know that this evidence is there. Yet the Washington Post ran a very brief, dismissive story Nov. 15, a Saturday, when attention is skimpy. Perhaps under pressure from continued coverage by the ``blogs,'' The New York Times, cue sheet for the establishment, got around to the story on Thursday, Nov. 20 - at the bottom of Page 14, the third of three pages of Iraq news. And the same day the Post used the letter as an opening into reports of disagreements between the Defense Department and the CIA - on Page 34.
This amounts to hiding the news.
And while we are talking memos, what about the one revealing the Donk plan to politicize the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for partisan gain? It's been 17 days since it was revealed and Sen. Jay Rockefeller has yet to disavow it. All the latest at http://www.intelmemo.com/.
And last on the memo menu - what about the ones revealing the Donk plan to blackball minority judicial nominees? Well, not much is doing there other than Illinois Senator Dickie Durbin still has his panties knotted because someone spilled the beans. Hmm, why don't they roll out Ted "Unsafe at Any Speed" Kennedy to call all the minority nominees Neanderthals again?
