Powell, Iran and Bush

[rodeodance]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2109964/

The Post leads with word that Secretary of State Powell's recent warning, about Iran designing missiles for nukes, was based on an "unvetted, single source." Alone among the papers, yesterday's Post led with Powell's Iran scuttlebutt--and unlike the LAT--it didn't note that Powell himself acknowledged the info wasn't confirmed. Today's Post says the original tip came from a guy who, unsolicited, handed over about 1,000 pages of supposed docs on Teheran's nukes operation. The LAT also fronts a followup on the Powell zinger, citing a "senior State Department official" who tried to play the whole thing down, arguing that the comment was off-the-cuff and the intel weak. Whatever the case, the paper says, the comment " appeared to catch the Bush administration and its European allies off guard."

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Powell claims he was "embarassed" by his UN speech...

...yet gets right out there, again spouting unconfirmed, single-sourced rumors.

Stooge...:eyes:

[UpInArms]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1004436

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