Can you imagine?  The NYT being…biased?

Well, it’s true.

CIA officials angrily insisted Wednesday that a memo from intelligence chief Porter Goss did not order his staff to “back Bush,” as a newspaper headline put it Wednesday.

According to an official in possession of the memo, Goss told his staff:

“I also intend to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road. We support the administration, and its policies in our work as agency employees. We do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies. We provide the intelligence as we see it—and let the facts alone speak to the policymaker.”

The New York Times reported on the memo Wednesday in a story with the headline, “Chief of CIA Tells His Staff To Back Bush.”

“It is false,” said one official, “quite baffling.” The official called the New York Times headline “dopey.”

Oh, that liberal media.  Any journalistic reason why the New York fucking Times should be twisting the truth like this in headlines?  Everyone knows that people rarely read past the headline and first couple of paragraphs. So they lead with the lie and bury the truth.

Posted by JimK at 10:49 PM on November 17, 2004
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