“Atrios”:http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_03_21_atrios_archive.html#107996352207644285 links to this “pretty good Wall Street journal article”:http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB107991342102561383-IJjgoNjlaF3oJ2rZnuIaKeBm4,00.html on the many conflicting accounts about the government’s immediate response to the September 11 attacks. Much of the confusion is probably due to the inevitable difficulty in remembering precise timelines, but I’d bet that at least some of the time some people are deliberately making things up.
One thing I didn’t know was that Cheney’s office is still sticking to the story that there was a credible threat to Air Force One that day. I thought that story had been officially inoperative for years now.
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Ray 03.22.04 at 5:48 pm
Not everybody gets every memo. Nor is every memo read. No big.
Barry 03.22.04 at 6:45 pm
Cheney’s done this before. IIRC, he talked about the ‘mobile biological warfare trailers’ a few months ago.
Kevin Drum (or somebody commenting there) had the theory that the mainstream media pays less attention to Cheney than to Bush. This means that Cheney can float lies to their base, while attracting less general attention.
james 03.22.04 at 10:00 pm
If anything, surely more attention should be paid to Cheney, no? It’s not quite organ-grinder and monkey, but…
Barry 03.23.04 at 12:25 am
Yes, but the mainstream media only occasionally does what it should.
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