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| Friday, March 14, 2008 Cherry-picking Intelligence: Saddam's Iraq and Terrorism [Steve Schippert] Permit me, please, to ask a very basic and fundamental question that must be answered: Are we, the United States, fighting a War on Terror, or are we just fighting a War on Al-Qaeda Senior Leadership? Answering this question would go a long way toward unspinning and unpacking what most Americans probably see as a dizzying contrast in reporting. Case in point: Consider the headlines that followed the disclosure of the latest Iraq Perspectives Project analyzing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi documents and other intelligence captured in Iraq. ABC: Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda CNN: Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda not linked, Pentagon says New York Times: Study Finds No Qaeda-Hussein Tie Washington Post: Study Discounts Hussein, Al-Qaeda Link AFP: No link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda: Pentagon study McClatchy: Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida The headlines and the narrative dictated by the bodies of the stories hover over a single sentence in the Executive Summary, which reads: "This study found no 'smoking gun' (i.e., direct connection) between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda." The journalists cherry-picked a single sentence out of a 94-page report and have written multitudes of stories on it. One can question whether some of the writers even read the report bey ... |
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