Abuse week
05/18/05
On May 16, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan expressed outrage over Newsweek's story that a U.S. military report was going to acknowledge that guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention center had tried to put a copy of the Quran down a toilet. 'The report had real consequences. People have lost their lives,' McClellan said. 'Our image abroad has been damaged.' The next day, after Newsweek had fully retracted the story, McClellan added that the magazine had a responsibility to 'help repair the damage' to our reputation in the Muslim world. Let's see. A mistake ... lives lost ... America's image abroad damaged. Does any of that sound vaguely familiar? A few instances do spring to mind. Newsweek didn't have anything to do with them. McClellan's boss did...
http://www.slate.com/id/2119055/
from Slate, by Jacob Weisberg
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
On May 16, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan expressed outrage over Newsweek's story that a U.S. military report was going to acknowledge that guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention center had tried to put a copy of the Quran down a toilet. 'The report had real consequences. People have lost their lives,' McClellan said. 'Our image abroad has been damaged.' The next day, after Newsweek had fully retracted the story, McClellan added that the magazine had a responsibility to 'help repair the damage' to our reputation in the Muslim world. Let's see. A mistake ... lives lost ... America's image abroad damaged. Does any of that sound vaguely familiar? A few instances do spring to mind. Newsweek didn't have anything to do with them. McClellan's boss did...
http://www.slate.com/id/2119055/
from Slate, by Jacob Weisberg
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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