Looking over various reporting

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Looking over various reporting on Tora Bora from the winter and spring of 2001/2002, it seems clear that most major news outlets ran stories which flatly contradict what the Bush campaign is now saying on the subject (see this earlier post for more details.)

I’d be curious whether, in reporting the Bush campaign’s current denials about what happened at Tora Bora, any major news outlet has made reference to their own earlier reporting which makes it clear that, as nearly as such things can be known, what the president is saying is simply not true.

Indeed, not only is what the president’s campaign is saying not true, but as the April 2002 WaPo piece, discussed here, makes clear, what Kerry is charging is backed up to the letter by the administration’s own formal and informal after-action analyses and reports about the mistakes made at Tora Bora.

It’s really that clear cut.

Has the Post done it? The Times? Any of the cable networks? ABC?

These aren’t simply rhetorical questions. I’m terribly curious to see which if any of these news organizations has pointed out that their own reporting says that what the president’s campaign is now saying is just flat out false, an attempt to pretend that something that was widely reported less than three years ago didn’t even happen.

If you’ve got examples, please send them. And if there aren’t any, why not?

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