Press Gives Bush Free Pass - Boston Globe - Robert Kuttner

[Sperk]

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0716-09.htm

I'M GLAD THAT the press is finally making an issue of President Bush's knowing use of a faked intelligence report on Iraq's supposed nuclear weapons program. But most of the press keeps missing the behind or who actually benefits from the tax cuts or what kind of drug coverage the administration's Medicare amendments will really provide or how the Bush Clear Skies Act actually degrades clean-air standards, the press has given the administration an astonishingly free ride.

The back story of the politicization of intelligence has been hidden in plain view for months. Last fall, investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss, writing in The American Prospect, where I am co-editor, exposed the efforts by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to take control of intelligence summaries from the CIA. In March, The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh exposed the forgery of the report, now belatedly in the headlines, that Saddam was trying to buy uranium from Niger.

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[Erika]

1. Bush has attacked anything progressive!

He wants to roll back environmental protections. He wants to roll back labor gains. He wants to roll back social and veteran's programs. His new name should be the "roll back president". He doesn't just wish to preserve status quo. He wants to roll back the status quo. What an elitist dork.