Brokaw Raises How Tenet 'Frustrated' That Reno Ruled 'Illegal' a CIA P
April 30th, 2007 10:17 PM
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw gave a sentence to a criticism of the Clinton administration, by former CIA Director George Tenet, not mentioned in broadcast network evening newscast stories last week, or Monday night on ABC and CBS, nor on Sunday's two-part 60 Minutes interview -- all of which focused on Tenet's attacks on Bush officials. Brokaw relayed: “He said that he was frustrated…
Blogger on CNN: You Helped Terrorists' PR Campaign
April 30th, 2007 3:03 PM
Over the weekend, blogger Jim Hanson (aka "Uncle Jimbo" at Blackfive) appeared on CNN's "This Week at War" where he asked about how the U.S. military was going to improve its response to the pretty sophisticated usage of the media that Islamic terrorists have begun to develop.Of course, the fact that the terrorists have gotten good at using the media isn't simply a deficiency of the Pentagon. It…
Brokaw Wonders Why Tenet Didn't Resign Given 'Rogue' Pentagon Operatio
April 30th, 2007 8:33 AM
The Bush administration: a bigger threat to national security than a foreign spy. That was Tom Brokaw's implicit assumption in his interview with former CIA Director George Tenet on this morning's "Today." Along the way, Brokaw accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of running a "rogue" intelligence operation.BROKAW: In the opening passage you describe conversations in the Clinton…
Former Head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit: Don’t Buy Tenet’s Blame Gam
April 29th, 2007 10:17 PM
On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” ex-CIA Director George Tenet told CBS’ Scott Pelley the Bush administration misrepresented his now famous “slam dunk” reference to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (video available here).However, one of Tenet’s former employees, Michael Scheuer, published an op-ed (h/t Captain Ed) in the Washington Post Sunday cautioning that “the former director of central…
Government Warned WaPo in Original Article of 'Lynch's Heroics
April 29th, 2007 12:07 PM
Because of Tuesday’s testimony by former Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, the media have renewed the stories about the government “lying” about Lynch’s heroism and only correcting it later, but the conservative blog American Thinker dug up that first article which supposedly gave the details of Lynch’s rescue and found the “government warned against this fight-to-the-death story line… at the time of the…
The Parallel Universe of Frank Rich: Press Corps Too Pliant
April 29th, 2007 6:34 AM
Frank Rich is from Venus; NewsBusters is from Mars.NewsBusters documents the way that, day-in and day-out, the MSM slants its coverage against conservative principles in general and the Bush administration in particular. Frank Rich looks at the same coverage and complains that the press is too Bush-friendly.In his p.p.v. New York Times column of today, All the President’s Press, Rich takes the…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: April 21 to
April 28th, 2007 10:35 AM
MSNBC: Fair and BalancedAccording to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani committed "terrorism" when he suggested that the country would be "playing defense" if a Democrat was elected president in 2008. And this is the network that’s hosting a Republican presidential debate? Americans Making Lots of Money: Good or Bad? On Monday, an ABC graphic provided a shining example…
CNN's Ware: Troop Pullout Debate Is 'Delusional,' Would Hand Iraq to a
April 26th, 2007 10:12 AM
Left-wing blogs loved it when CNN’s Michael Ware rebuked Senator John McCain a few weeks ago, after McCain suggested he could safely walk through areas of Baghdad. But this morning on CNN, Ware took dead aim at Democratic schemes for pulling out of Iraq, saying that debating a U.S. troop withdrawal was “delusional” and such a step would amount to “giving Iraq to Iran...and al Qaeda. That’s who…
