WaPo Report - Debunked And Denied

First by the blogosphere, then by the White House.

When an ABC reporter pressed McClellan on the subject at his morning briefing, McClellan upbraided the network for picking up on the report.

"This is reckless reporting and for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible, and I hope that ABC would apologize for it and make a correction on the air," he said.

Too bad the WaPo didn't talk to the source cited below before running the story. Seems they only consulted anonymous sources that told them what they possibly wanted to hear.

A U.S. intelligence official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the field report cited by the Post, but said it was a preliminary finding that had to be evaluated.

"You don't change a report that has been coordinated in the (intelligence) community based on a field report," the official said. "It's a preliminary report. No matter how strongly the individual may feel about the subject matter."

Several blogs chimed in. Confederate Yankee kicked it off for me early this AM

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Comments

[kate]

the republicans have lost their spine or back bone (as you reported on already) prompting the lefties to go beyond berserk. some of us are fighting terrorists, they don't care. i can't bring myself to watch the news anymore, it makes me sick.

[him]

Yeah, ABC cherry-picked the info. it wanted. Kinda like GW cherry-picking pre-war intelligence (and, in this case post-war intelligence) he wanted to sell his war.

[bill gaffney]

Bush doesn't have enough in his head to lie, it his handlers that lied for
him they put the words in his mouth. He doesn't know if he lied or not!!!