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Skriven 2006-01-16 22:26:00 av Bob Klahn (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Earl Croasmun
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->> ->>  Kristof's calling Wilson's trip at the "behest" 
->> ->>  of the VP was an error on Kristof's part. 
 
->>  EC> ONCE AGAIN you are making up a "fact" and pretending that 
->>  EC> it is true. As I already informed you, Kristof said the 
->>  EC> wording was poor.  He does not indicate whether the wording 
->>  EC> was his or Wilson's. 
 
->>  I went back to the May 6 article. 
 
 EC> Then you "went back" to the wrong article.  It was in the 
 
 Then you should give the date of the article. Esp since this one 
 is even better, for my side. 
 
 EC> June article that Kristof had Wilson taking the Niger trip 
 EC> "at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney." 
 
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  White House in Denial 
 
 Nicholas D. Kristof 
 
 ... 
 
 already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at 
 the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. 
 
... 
 
 Cheney's office got wind of this and asked the C.I.A. to 
 investigate. 
 
 The agency chose a former ambassador to Africa to undertake the 
 mission, and that person flew to Niamey, Niger, in the last week 
 of February 2002. This envoy spent one week in Niger, staying at 
 the Sofitel and 
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 See, your republican editing left out the part where Kristof 
 corrected his own mistake in the same article. 
 
 EC> Kristof now says that the word "behest" was inaccurate, and 
 
 Which he corrected in the very same article. No one would know 
 that if all they had was republcan editing. 
 
 EC> he says that Wilson misspoke and exaggerated to him in the 
 EC> interview. 
 
 Kristof is playing CYA. 
 
 EC> Kristof does not say whether the word "behest" 
 EC> came from Wilson or was his word choice.  Above, you claim 
 
 It was Kristof's poor word choice. Otherwise how would Kristof 
 know to use the correct sequence of events in the very same 
 article? 
 
 EC> that the error was Kristof's.  Kristof doesn't say that. 
 
 But Wilson told it to Kristof correctly, which is why Kristof 
 knew to use the correct explanation in the same article. 
 
 EC> Wilson doesn't say that.  There is absolutely no evidence 
 EC> of it. 
 
 The fact that Kristof corrected it in the same article is very 
 strong evidence. 
 
 EC> And yet you casually state it as fact.  You won't 
 EC> prove it, of course.  You can't. 
 
 I just did, when I pointed out that Kristof corrected *HIS* 
 mistake in the very same article. 
 
 More of your desperate ad hominem deleted. 
 
->>  EC> term: "the CIA had sent an envoy at the behest of the vice 
->>  EC> president's office to investigate, and had found that it 
 
->>  Well, that is exactly what Wilson said. 
 
 EC> You just contradicted yourself. 
 
 How? The VP's office "behested" the CIA for an investigation. 
 The CIA sent Wilson. 
 
 Your desperation to try to parse it out that fine is hard enough 
 to accept, but your republican editing has slipped to the point 
 of blatant fraud there. 
 
 Here's the actual text. 
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 EC> Just a few days after the article, 
 EC> Kristof used exactly the same word in an appearance on NPR, 
 EC> which suggests that he was repeating Wilson's use of the 
 EC> term: "the CIA had sent an envoy at the behest of the vice 
 EC> president's office to investigate, and had found that it 
 
 Well, that is exactly what Wilson said. The VP's office asked 
 for an investigation, and the CIA sent Wilson. IOW, Kristof 
 never actually said the VP sent Wilson. 
 
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 Why are you so desperate to prove something that died when it 
 was shown that Cheney lied about this anyway? 
 
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