Kevin Drum takes on undoubtedly bullshit reports of Iranian bombs so that the rest of us don't have to.
One thing I'd like to add. Sometime this week on NPR they were talking about the Scooter Libby trial and how the press was also taking it on the chin. I forget who was talking, but the gist of her comment boiled down to them not taking good notes or having good memories. As if. Take a look at the first couple of paragraphs from an LA Times article on this topic:
Baghdad -- U.S. defense and intelligence officials today rolled out what they said was solid evidence that Iran was providing bombs to target U.S. and Iraqi troops and accused Iran's supreme leader of orchestrating the smuggling of such devices over the Iran-Iraq border.
At a briefing held under unusually secretive conditions here, the U.S. officials, who refused to be identified by name and did not allow cameras or recording devices inside a conference room, offered up tables laden with hardware and a slide show of documentation that they said bolstered the U.S. contentions of Iranian involvement in Iraqi unrest.
Nowhere in the article is there the slightest challenge to what was presented. Given what happened last time around, you would think that they would have learned, but apparently not. Poor notes and memory are the least of the media's faults. Until they learn to stand up and do their jobs, we will continue to lurch inexorably towards ever-greater disaster.
Posted by Jason at February 11, 2007 10:10 PM