Out of My Mind

Iraq? Not a slam dunk after all. Tenet never said it. Just words attirbuted to him. (Of course, if he had gone public with that, then he would have won his medal.)

The truth of the story -- that Big Media is unsurpisingly missing -- is here and here.

Of course, when Big Media is in the charge of people like Keller and Schulzberger and Russert and their ilk and the delusionals that think Faux Nooz is something to be emulated, not a tiny niche provider of lunacy to a fringe audience, what do you expect?

A little taste from the first link:

As Suskind documented in his book, the "slam dunk" statement came in the form of a memo written by the White House and transmitted to Woodward. Accordingly, it wasn't the independent recollections of several individuals, but an authorized coordinated story put together by a team and vetted by the White House communications office. Such coordination of interested testimony would never make it past the Courthouse steps, much less get admitted in a Court of law, yet it is repeated as gospel by White House flacks and the mainstream media.

But they forgot something. There is a paper trail. Not a paper trail from the meeting itself, but a paper trail of White House coordinated statements that suggests that this "slam dunk" comment was a manufactured propaganda phrase in the days when the Iraq intelligence fiasco was becoming clear.