By: E&P Staff "Nukes & Spooks," the blog written by McClatchy correspondents Jonathan S. Landay (national security and intelligence), Warren P. Strobel (foreign affairs and the State Department), and Nancy Youssef (Pentagon), today addresses the use of President Bush employing "propaganda" during the run-up to war, as former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has claimed.
Readers will recall that reporters at the Knight Ridder/McClatchy bureau in D.C. were among the most persistent -- if not the only major -- questioners of the intelligence reports during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, so this is not exactly new territory for them, as they point out.
"We find it a wee bit preposterous -- and we are being diplomatic here -- that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! -- defended President Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to 'set the record straight' (and sell a few books) five years and more after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying to stabilize that country," an entry today states.
"But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business."
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