Press Briefing by Scott McClellan:
MR. McCLELLAN: David, you’re just ignoring the facts. You’re not looking at what Director Tenet said. You’re not looking at what Secretary Powell said before the United Nations.
Q Scott, do you really think people buy this?
MR. McCLELLAN: And I think that you can seek to drive a wedge, but there is no wedge there between what the September 11th Commission said and what the facts —
Q Between what the facts are and what the reality is.
Wow, it’s like they want to earn their paychecks all of a sudden . . .
And further into the briefing, we have this nugget:
MR. McCLELLAN: Secretary Powell, one of the key things he talked about in his remarks was — and let me just go back to those remarks — quote from Secretary Powell’s remarks:
“Iraq and terrorism go back decades. Baghdad trains Palestine Liberation Front members in small arms and explosives. Saddam uses the Arab Liberation Front to funnel money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in order to prolong the intifada. “
So how does this differ from the School of the Americas (or whatever they call it now) and the whole Contragate scam?