"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Journal editorial overlooked inconsistencies to claim Levin "spun" Hayden's testimony on Feith
A June 27 Wall Street Journal editorial alleged that Sen. Carl Levin had "spun" the testimony given by CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden at his Senate confirmation hearings "to claim support for the Democratic assertion that former Pentagon official [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith had 'distorted intelligence assessments on Iraq.' " In fact, when Levin asked Hayden during the hearing whether he was "comfortable with Mr. Feith's office's approach to intelligence analysis," Hayden responded directly: "No, sir, I wasn't." Read more
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