Ken Mehlman is a LYING LIAR ---->>> [View All]

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Josh Marshall catalogues some of the LIES told by Ken Mehlman on Sunday's Meet the Press. The video is available here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/13.html#a5844

Link to the MTP transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967566/

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Let's catalog a few of <Mehlman's lies>.

One was that the Senate intel report exonerated the administration of any effort to mislead the American people over Iraq. Wrong. They specifically did not look at that question.

He also said the Silbermann/Robb Commission concluded the same thing. Wrong. They too were specifically not authorized to examine that question.

He said the British Butler Report said the same thing. First of all, who cares what a Report written to cover Tony Blair said? Second of all, it said no such thing.

He said the Duelfer Report said Saddam "was trying to reconstitute his weapons programs." That is at best a highly, highly misleading description of the report.

He said that Saddam "had supported terrrorists, had terrorists operating out of his country." There are so many different lies and canards potentially underlying this claim it's hard to know where to start. But again, wrong. None of the purported evidence for this claim has ever stood up.

This hurricane of lies scarcely covers all the false or misleading statements he made in just that one little video clip. So please take a look at the clip and send in any more examples you find of clearly false or intentionally misleading statements.

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-- Josh Marshall