Center for American Progress Not Exactly Coming Clean

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CXLVIII

An educative blog, Jan. 28, at The New Republic Online (ellipsis in original).

SCOTT MCCLELLAN, NOT EXACTLY COMING CLEAN:

"I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.' Those were not words we used."
--White House spokesman Scott McClellan, January 27, 2004

"This is about imminent threat."
--White House spokesman Scott McClellan, February 10, 2003

Special thanks to the good folks at the Center for American Progress.

UPDATE: Shame on me for not checking this out more thoroughly. It turns out that the second McClellan quote was taken way out of context. He's refering [sic] to the threat Turkey would face after we invaded Iraq, not the threat Iraq posed to the United States prior to the war. Apologies to McClellan and the White House...

As far as I can tell, the deceptive quotations were on this page, Jan. 28.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 01/30/04 07:16:21 PM
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