U.S. Denies Role in Attacking Hezbollah

[sabra]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-hersh14aug14,1,3102351.story?coll=la-news-a_section

U.S. Denies Role in Attacking Hezbollah

WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday vigorously denied a report in the New Yorker magazine that the Bush administration had worked with Israel to plot military action against Hezbollah as part of a long-term plan to target Iran, a longtime supporter of the Shiite Muslim militant group.

"The piece abounds in fictions," White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in an e-mailed response to a request for comment. He also assailed reporter Seymour M. Hersh's use of unnamed sources, saying it was "hard to imagine that the story would meet any major news organization's standards for sourcing and verification."

Appearing Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition," Hersh alluded to his early reporting on detainee abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "When I did Abu Ghraib, the same kind of stuff was thrown at me — that I'm fantasizing," he said.

His editors at the New Yorker, he said, "know who my sources are. In many cases, they've talked to my sources."

[EFerrari]

1. Tony Snow, Seymour Hersh. Who to trust?

:)

[Virginia Dare]

3. Gotta go with Hersh on this one...n/t

[BattyDem]

6. Hmmmm ... let's think about this

A respected, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist or George W. "catapult-the-propaganda" Bush? That's a tough one ... but I think I'll have to go with Hersh! :P

[leveymg]

2. Doesn't sound like a denial to me, Tony. Just bureaucratic double-speak.

If it were really, substantially false, he's say so. "Abounds in fictions" sounds like there are some minor inaccuracies. Basically, that makes this is a confirmation.

Tony Snow is a piss-poor liar.

[Tempest]

4. Israel has confirmed Bush's role

Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/081206.html

Amid the political and diplomatic fallout from Israel's faltering invasion of Lebanon, some Israeli officials are privately blaming President George W. Bush for egging Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into the ill-conceived military adventure against the Hezbollah militia in south Lebanon.

[warrens]

5. oooo, I loooooove this

There is no way they can win this baby against Hersh. After all, they even announced the speeded up delivery of missiles and rockets to Israel to help them out. Pass the popcorn, this is really going to piss off a LOT of the GOP.

[Marie26]

7. So, Tony Snow confirmed

Hersh's story. Good to know.

[genieroze]

8. I thought this weeks ago.

[LeftHander]

9. The Aministration abounds in fiction....nt

[coalition_unwilling]

10. Really bad fiction, imho. They're kind of like Thackeray to

Democrat's Charles Dickens\George Eliot.

Apologies in advance to fans of Thackeray (author of "Vanity Fair")