White House Selectively Edits ABC Iraq Report: Deletes Criticisms Before Sending To Reporters

Think Progress:

On ABC World News with Charles Gibson last night, ABC National Security Correspondent Jonathan Karl filed a report about the recent decline in American troop casualties in Iraq. In the report, Karl noted that "violence in Iraq is down," but added that "there has been almost no political progress on the national level":

In fact, there's been almost no political progress on the national level, and U.S. officials know military gains won't mean much if the Iraqi government doesn't get its act together, which is one reason the Pentagon doesn't even want to use the word "winning."

After the report aired, the White House sent the piece out in an official White House publication called "White House Iraq Update." But, as Karl writes today, the White House edited his report before sending it out, making it look "like an unqualified declaration of success in Iraq."

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Comments

[jackstraw005]

04:58 PM on 11/06/2007

edit the news to suit your own ends, just like jesus would.

[Shagnasty]

01:10 PM on 11/03/2007

Where are the defenders of the correct use of ABC's copyright?

[MikeMidCity]

12:16 PM on 11/03/2007

Makes me long for the days of LBJ's credibility gap.

The very fact that nothing this government puts out as important information can be trusted as truth points to it's evil intent.

America the Fascist.

[FlowerGirl]

12:06 PM on 11/03/2007

Well, this is not your father's America, after all. What do you expect from a criminal gang under strange management?

[getoffmedz]

11:47 AM on 11/03/2007

The recent drop in Shia insurgent activity is due to the Shia in Iraq holding back their resources until the U.S. and Israel attack Iran.

The criminal White House will continue to lie and pettyfog as usual.

[Plowboy]

11:29 AM on 11/03/2007

You didn't really want the unvarnished truth, did you? If so, you need to look for other sources. In this country the truth is (like torture or democracy or anything else) whatever our Leader says it is.

[tililek]

11:05 AM on 11/03/2007

Much used habits and in-grained and impossible to forego. Any scrap of information is emended by this White House.

They report only for those few that are true believers of Bush as well, of course, for Bush and Cheyney. All of us others are already skeptical of whatever it is tht emerges from this administration.

[JSquercia]

09:50 AM on 11/03/2007

Does this really surprize anyone ? If it does then you haven't been paying attention