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Judi Lynn

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Wed Feb-22-06 06:57 AM
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Planting Stories Under Review

Planting Stories Under Review
Associated Press | February 22, 2006

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped.

Rumsfeld told reporters he was mistaken in the earlier assertion.

"I don't have knowledge as to whether it's been stopped. I do have knowledge it was put under review. I was correctly informed. And I just misstated the facts," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing.

Rumsfeld had said in a speech in New York last Friday and in a television interview the same day that the controversial practice had been stopped.
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http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,88550,00.html

White House Correspondents' dinner April 30, 2005.
Credit: Getty Images

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DoYouEverWonder

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Wed Feb-22-06 07:00 AM
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1. Seems Rummie

doesn't know shit lately?

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Kierkegaard

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Wed Feb-22-06 07:02 AM
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2. When has he ever?

The only thing different here is that he admits he doesn't know shit.

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truthisfreedom

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Wed Feb-22-06 07:04 AM
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3. "I just misstated the facts" = "I just lied because it was convenient and

made me look good."

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Wed Feb-22-06 07:09 AM
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4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2122837

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