McClellan: Wash Post Story "An Embarrassment"... "I Hope They Will Go And Publicly Apologize"...

Thinkprogress April 12, 2006 at 03:17 PM
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On May 29, 2003, President Bush said "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." This morning the Washington Post revealed that a Pentagon field report transmitted to Washington on May 27, 2003 "had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons."

Today during the White House press briefing, Scott McClellan demanded a public apology from the news media for covering the story:

You know, I saw some reporting talking about how this latest revelation -- which is not something that is new; this is all old information that's being rehashed -- was an embarrassment for the White House. No, it's an embarrassment for the media that is out there reporting this.

I brought up with some of you earlier today some of the reporting that was based of this Washington Post report. And I talked to one of network about it...they expressed their apologies to the White House.

I hope they will go and publicly apologize on the air about the statements that were made, because I think it is important given that they had made those statements in front of all their viewers. So we look forward to that happening as well.

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