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Propaganda/Noise Machine

Wash. Post ignored own reporting in repeating Freeh allegation
In a December 15 article by staff writers John Solomon and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum about funding for the Clinton Presidential Library, The Washington Post reported: "In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last year, former FBI director Louis J. Freeh said Clinton 'hit up [Saudi Arabia's head of state] Prince Abdullah for a contribution to his library' during a meeting in which Freeh wanted Clinton to ask about the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing." Though the Post acknowledged that former President Clinton disputes this account, the newspaper ignored its own previous reporting in a 2005 article on Freeh's allegation about the Khobar Towers investigation that Freeh was not present at the meeting in question and had no firsthand knowledge of it. Indeed, Freeh acknowledged that "I was not in the room" for the meeting during the October 16, 2005, edition of NBC's Meet the Press. Further, beyond omitting the fact that Freeh was not in the meeting, by describing the meeting as "a meeting in which Freeh wanted Clinton to ask about the ... bombing," the Post affirmatively suggests that Freeh was there. Nor did the Post note that, as Media Matters has previously detailed, Freeh has given contradictory descriptions of the people who supposedly told him about the meeting. Read more

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