Media roundup: Herald Tribune edits out Bolton; Post headline errs with 'Liddy'
John Byrne
An article regarding the Bush Administration’s role in the outing of a covert CIA operative published in Saturday’s International Herald Tribune deleted references to John R. Bolton that appeared in the New York Times edition of the same article, RAW STORY has learned.
The Tribune article omitted the final five paragraphs of the piece which referenced President Bush’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations. Those paragraphs follow.
...Mr. Rove has also told the grand jury that he never saw the
memorandum, a person briefed on the case said. Democrats who have been
eager to focus attention on the case have urged reporters to look into
the role of several other administration officials, including John R.
Bolton, who was then under secretary of state for arms control and
international security and has since been nominated by Mr. Bush to be
ambassador to the United Nations.
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In his disclosure form for his confirmation hearings, Mr. Bolton made
no mention of being interviewed in the case, a government official
said. In the week after Mr. Wilson's article appeared, Mr. Bolton
attended a conference in Australia.
In addition to ferreting out the original leak, the grand jury is
examining the truthfulness of its witnesses, comparing each account
with previous testimony. One apparent area of interest is the
conflicting accounts given by Mr. Rove and Matthew Cooper, a Time
magazine correspondent who has said he spoke to Mr. Rove about Ms.
Wilson, about why they spoke on July 11, 2003.
Mr. Rove, said a source familiar with his testimony, told prosecutors
that the conversation began under the pretext of discussing welfare
reform.
But Mr. Cooper said he had no record or memory of actually talking to
Mr. Rove about welfare reform, instead only discussing the Wilson case
in their brief chat. The grand jury focused on that apparent
discrepancy, Mr. Cooper wrote in an account in Time this week.
The Times’ reporters on the article, David Johnston, Richard Stevenson, Douglas Jehl and Anne Kornblut did not respond to a RAW STORY request for comment.
The New York Times Company’s Herald Tribune often abbreviates articles that appear in the Times, their flagship newspaper.
The omission was first discovered by a member of the liberal forum Democratic Underground.
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The Washington Post engaged in a rather embarrassing gaffe late Saturday, posting a website headline titled, “Testimony by Rove, Liddy examined.”
The piece, by Carol D. Loennig and Jim VandeHei, detailed discrepancies between testimony given by Bush adviser Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff “Scooter” Libby to a grand jury investigating the outing of a CIA agent.
G. Gordon Liddy, now a Sirus Radio talk show host, was President Richard Nixon’s chief operative for a political unit that broke into the Watergate hotel in 1972. The break-in trigged a series of articles by the Washington Post that led to Nixon’s eventual resignation.
Some Democrats have recently compared the CIA outing scandal to Watergate.
The Post corrected the error after an email from RAW STORY last night; it did not appear in the print edition.
An article regarding the Bush Administration’s role in the outing of a covert CIA operative published in Saturday’s International Herald Tribune deleted references to John R. Bolton that appeared in the New York Times 