Disappearing the Facts

[babylonsister]

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Disappearing the Facts
03.12.08 -- 2:38PM
By David Kurtz

The other night McClatchy broke the news that a huge Pentagon study of Iraqi archives had concluded that there was no Saddam-al Qaeda link. That's been followed by reports in other media on the contours of the report, which was supposed to be released today at a Pentagon press conference.

But not any more.

ABC News reports:

The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.

The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online. Read the report's executive summary HERE.

Asked why the report would not be posted online and could not be emailed, the spokesman for Joint Forces Command said: "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail."

Another Pentagon official said initial press reports on the study made it "too politically sensitive."

More soon . . .

[islandmkl]

1. "If we don't say it, it won't be heard; if it's not heard, it won't be known...

if it's not known, we can say it didn't happen; if we can say it didn't happen, we can do whatever we like...because we won't say we did it,"

[lonestarnot]

2. K & R

For the stupid lady at the grocery store yesterday. "We need to nuke 'em all and be done with it."