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Originally posted by connerm
Dan Rather in introducing the Sandy Berger story on July 21, said the following: "Sandy Berger, who was National Security Advisor under President Clinton, stepped down as an advisor to the Kerry campaign today....... as the result of a carefully orchestrated leak, the timing of which appears tp be no coincidence."
I'm no journalist, but I think he missed the point.
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Two things.
First, your quote has a "..." in it, which usually means something was deleted. Was that a pause, or was the quote edited?
Second, I assume that your position is that a fair and balanced report would leave out the White House's political motivation for leaking this story two days before the 9/11 report. There are no non-political reasons for their having leaked this story now. The White House has known about the Berger investigation for a long time, so the leak seems to come late. On the other hand, the FBI hasn't even interviewed Berger yet, so the leak is also too early.
I am part of what Hannity calls the Blame America First Crowd, so don't go by me, but it just seems newsworthy that our President is willing to play partisan political games with our national security. The timing of the Berger leak is newsworthy, though not surprising because Bush's entire approach to the 9/11 Commission has been nothing but political throughout.