Post Reporter Linton Weeks: Biased and Wrong

Make No Mistake: Presidents Wouldn't Admit It

By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 9, 2006; Page C01

Being president apparently means never being able to say you're sorry. Or wrong.

President Bush said that the Central Intelligence Agency did secretly detain certain people suspected of working for al-Qaeda, and that CIA interrogators have used "an alternative set of procedures" designed to pry information from prisoners. Given the opportunity to say he was wrong or that he was sorry, he did what presidents do: neither.

It is a presidential maneuver that satisfies some Americans for whom the ends of the Bush administration's approach to combating terrorism justify the means, and that angers others who believe civil liberties have been casualties of that war. It is a tack that the president may take again in light of reports from the Senate Intelligence Committee that Saddam Hussein was not linked to Osama bin Laden at the time Bush was mounting a war against Iraq. In any case, it is an unapologetic apologia consistent with 230 years of U.S. history.

"Thomas Jefferson was wrong about a lot of stuff," says Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia. But when it came to admitting he was wrong or sorry, Jefferson "could be evasive."

Why should the President apologize for doing his job in accordance to all laws? As an obvious Bush-hater (something which immediately renders your journalism credentials null and void) you immediately assume that the phrase "alternative set of procedures" implies that something wrong or evil occurred, a conclusion which is born from you own hostility to the President rather than from any factual information. Of course your first sentence belies your objectivity. The Washington Post continues to be a radical, Left-wing biased, Democrat Propaganda rag.

The President stated very clearly that at no time were illegal techniques used for those interrogations. It is your hostility toward America and the President which warps your coverage. This persistent effort by the Washington Post's staff to misrepresent the facts in an effort to attack and discredit the Bush Administration is the reason that your publication is going broke. The American public are no longer interested in your lies and Democrat propaganda. The Post is suffering the fate it deserves.

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