The rub in a nutshell.

[King Coal]

"On Sunday, Sept. 8, 2002, Miller wrote a story for the Times quoting anonymous officials who said aluminum tubes found in Iraq were to be used as centrifuges. Her report said the "diameter, thickness and other technical specifications" of the tubes -- precisely the grounds for skepticism among nuclear enrichment experts -- showed that they were "intended as components of centrifuges."

She closed her piece by quoting then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice who said the United States would not sit by and wait to find a smoking gun to prove its case, possibly in the form of a “a mushroom cloud." After Miller’s piece was published, administration officials pursued their case on Sunday talk shows using Miller’s piece as evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear bomb, even though those officials were the ones who supplied Miller with the story and were quoted anonymously."

http://rawstory.com/admin/dbscripts/printstory.php?story=1305

This is the way the WHIGS operate. They supply the false story then use it as evidence. They even did this with the CIA. It's like the old debating trick of restating your opponents argument for him, and then attacking what you said he said that he didn't really say. It's a simple as that.

[ewagner]

1. That's exactly what they do/did

I remember screaming at the TV during some of those Sunday morning talk shows and telling my spouse that they were practicing "closed circuit feedback". They had the lies published and used the publications as PROOF!

This was the worst propaganda exercise since the late 1930's (hint, hint)

[King Coal]

2. Yep. Three Card Monte keeps on workin'