How long can William Safire keep up this charade? Eric Alterman

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How long with the Times allow him to mislead his readers?  Safire, you will recall, termed it to be an “undisputed fact” that Mohammed Atta met with the chief of Iraqi intelligence in Prague.  This was a lie.  There is no evidence the meeting took place and the entire story rests on the testimony of a single individual with a serious drinking problem.

Today Safire continues to cloud the issue with bogus claims of a “smoking gun.”  Well, yes, but it’s a smoking gun pointed directly at his (and the administration’s) head.

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