In a hole? Dig faster

Desperate Bush administration Urain’tium spin somehow manages to get even more desperate:

White House officials argued that since a paper issued by the British government contained the assertion, if it was attributed to Britain it would be factually accurate, CBS said. CIA officials dropped their objections, CBS said.

I’m sorry, “White House officials”, but outside of grade school debate club, we call this sort of sophistry lying.

If you know something is false, claiming that it’s hearsay doesn’t make it true. Bush’s cadre of the oh-so-clever may think that they’ve outwitted us all by putting a little bonnet on the elephant, but it’s still here in the room. Yes, the British said what they said; that’s true. However, you, “White House officials”, knew that what they were saying was false. When you then use their false statement as a debating point, you are lying. Twice.

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