{"id":7125,"date":"2006-04-12T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2006-04-12T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T19:21:57","slug":"mcclellans-looks-in-vain-for-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mcclellans-looks-in-vain-for-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"McClellan looks in vain for an apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only word that comes to mind is “chutzpah.” Scott McClellan is so mad about the reporting<\/a> on Bush lying about the mobile “biological laboratories” that he wants news outlets to — get this — apologize<\/em>. From this morning’s press gaggle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

McClellan: And I think it’s reckless reporting for ABC to go this morning and say that The Washington Post says that the President knew at the time what he was saying was not true.<\/p>\n

Q: So was the President made aware of the fact —<\/p>\n

McClellan: And are you all going to apologize?<\/p>\n

Q: Was the President made aware of the faxed field report?<\/p>\n

McClellan: Are you all going to apologize for that?<\/p>\n

Q: Was the President aware of the faxed field report?<\/p>\n

McClellan: Is that a correct statement?<\/p>\n

Q: Scott, was the President made aware of the field report that was faxed?<\/p>\n

McClellan: Jessica, I just told you, I’ve asked the intelligence community what they based this paper on. I can’t tell you what they based their paper on. You have to. We’re not an intelligence-gathering agency.<\/p>\n

Q: No, but was the field report faxed —<\/p>\n

McClellan: The President made his comments based on this white paper that was publicly released by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is the arm of the — which is an arm of the Pentagon —<\/p>\n

Q: — President have access to material before it’s declassified, so the question is, was he aware of this report on May 27th?<\/p>\n

McClellan: I just told you — you shouldn’t make any assumptions, but you should go and ask the intelligence community what was this based on. I can’t tell you what they based that on. They’re the intelligence-gathering agency.<\/p>\n

Q: You can tell us if the President had this information. Did he have this information?<\/p>\n

McClellan: Jessica, this — I just saw this report. I’ll come back with more information if there is. But this is reckless reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McClellan never did get around to answering any of the questions about what Bush knew and when.<\/p>\n

All the journalists told the public was that Bush claimed<\/a> in 2003, “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories<\/a>,” when in fact, field reports sent to Washington two days prior “had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons<\/a>.” For some reason, McClellan seems to think these reports make Bush look dishonest. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only word that comes to mind is “chutzpah.” Scott McClellan is so mad about the reporting on Bush lying about the mobile “biological laboratories” that he wants news outlets to — get this — apologize. From this morning’s press gaggle: McClellan: And I think it’s reckless reporting for ABC to go this morning and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}