SIXTY MINUTES SHAMEFULLY SELLS OUT THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
For immediate release Contact: Daniel V. Smith
April 25, 2006 (202) 667-3900
(Washington, DC, April 18) Tom Neumann, executive director of The Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs, today released the following
statements regarding CBS’s Sixty Minutes program in which the integrity
of the Office of the President of the United States was trashed without
challenge:
“This week CBS’s Sixty Minutes did a program on allegations that the
President and his men doctored up CIA analyses and other intelligence in
order to create a casus belli. Tyler Drumheller, CIA’s lead man in
Europe, argued that there was no evidence worth its weight in salt that
indicated Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
“Absent from the program was the probing interrogative questioning that
Sixty Minutes normally does when interviewing an individual. In fact,
the program was less of an interview than a platform.
“The allegations went so far as to imply that the President went to war
frivolously, practically war for war’s sake.
“Argue the justification or the correctness of the President’s decision
all you want. History will judge. But shame on Sixty Minutes for selling
the integrity of the President of the United States without a challenge,
even without raising an eyebrow.”
For further commentary by Mr. Neumann, please contact the JINSA office
at 202-667-3900.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs is an independent,
non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization
established in 1976 to educate the public on national and international
security issues, including the importance of an effective U.S. defense
capability and the key role of strategic allies, including Israel, to
promote democratic values in the Middle East.
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“The allegations went so far as to imply that the President went to war
ReplyDeletefrivolously, practically war for war’s sake.
In other news, sky still blue, water still wet.
These were hardly "allegations." they were devastating evidence of what many of us knew before the invasion, that our president is a liar, and that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction.