Rumsfeld Changes His Story on Planting Reports

[katty]

cont'd: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002035684

Rumsfeld Changes His Story on Planting Reports

By Robert Burns

Published: February 21, 2006 3:05 PM ET /AP

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.

He said that Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, was reviewing the practice. Previously, Casey has said he saw no reason to stop it.

[EST]

1. Rumfilled has retreated into his mental fog of his dream,

the agitation they've created in the world, that his mind is addled. He needs to go ride ponies for a few years.

[katty]

4. a nice crib at Gitmo will do for him

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. "I was correctly informed, I just mis-stated the

facts"?

Ain't that a lie?

Or is that just my fact-less interpretation of it.

[jimshoes]

3. No, I think you're right...

it's a lie. He lied.