promised another big story, breaking news today

[seabeyond]

and i dont see one.

this is the second or third time on this board someone says a story is breaking, fourth fifth.............and there isnt a story

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I was hoping it was the Plame indictments

:shrug:

[punpirate]

2. Referring to...

... the presumed Knight-Ridder story due to come out today?

[seabeyond]

3. yes...thank you

for remembering the name

[Renew Deal]

11. Have you tried the Editors and Publishers site?

I don't know a lot about them, but they know about stories in advance.

[punpirate]

13. Nope, just did a...

... Google on the news page, to see what recent Knight-Ridder stories there were. One on Woolsley, which should have gotten a bit more bounce than it did (but, let's face it, it's not exactly new news that Defense Policy Board members were big proponents of the war and stood to profit from it).

Another on Halliburton billing for empty truck runs, not exactly new news, either.

One article a few minutes ago on delay of election talk. Nothing earth-shatteringly new there, except that Soaries is now saying he didn't request legislation to enable a delay.

One an hour ago about a cover-up concerning lead levels in Washington, DC's water. Now that might explain a lot of things....

If there's a blockbuster coming, I guess we'll just have to wait for it. Nothing on E&P, either.

Cheers.

[Green Mountain Dem]

4. I hear ya...

been waiting all day for the BIG Knight-Ridder story to break...so far shit has not hit any fan that I know of... did I miss it ??

[Literate Tar Heel]

8. maybe it was the one about

Woolsey feeding false information to the CIA ... didn't make much of a blip

[seventhson]

5. go to drudge - I sent them a story and it is in red letters

I found the story here and sent it in via his tip line and now it is in red letters on the front page (he Iraq PM story)

Now I know this is not the one we were looking for but it IS a Friday so you never know...

it is a huge story if true

another fucking saddam the US installs

[rumguy]

6. Who said it? And what was it supposed to be about?

[salinen]

7. What the hell are you smoking?

MARTHA!

[seabeyond]

9. bah ha ha ha

that got a laugh. lol lol. ya right. they got another woman, good for them.....string her up

[Green Mountain Dem]

10. Martha......Martha !!!

That was IT ??? THAT was the ball bustin, barn burning, peter pulling, mother fuckin news of the day??? Well just double clutch me baby cuz I'm cumming uphill after hearing that lil tidbit.

[hang a left]

12. This was the big scoop

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9165361.htm

WASHINGTON - A former CIA director who advocated war against Saddam Hussein helped arrange the debriefing of an Iraqi defector who falsely claimed that Iraq had biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks.

R. James Woolsey's role as a go-between was detailed in a classified Defense Department report chronicling how the defector's assertion came to be included in the Bush administration's case for war even after the defector was determined to be a fabricator.

A senior U.S. official summarized portions of the report for Knight Ridder on condition of anonymity because it's top secret. The report said that on Feb. 11, 2002, Woolsey telephoned Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Linton Wells about the defector and told him how to contact the man, who'd been produced by an Iraqi exile group eager to oust Saddam. Wells said he passed the information to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Woolsey's previously undisclosed role in the case of Maj. Mohammad Harith casts new light on how prominent invasion advocates outside the government used their ties to senior officials in the Bush administration to help make the case for war.

[maggrwaggr]

14. "US sets sights on toppling Iran regime"

Seems like a big one to me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x690885