News Hounds: "Special Report" Edits Rumsfeld Video

News Hounds: "Special Report" Edits Rumsfeld Video: "Reported by Janie - May 05, 2006

In a segment that sent chills down my spine, 'Special Report with Brit Hume' attempted to rewrite history last night (5/4) by editing the video of Rumsfeld's discussion with former CIA agent Roy McGovern during a speech in Atlanta.

Hume opened the segment with, 'Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, meanwhile was trying to take it guff during a speech today in Atlanta where he shrugged off a couple of hecklers, and then took on an audience member who said he had worked at the CIA for 27 years, and accused the Bush Admin.. Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration of lying about whether or not Iraq had WMDs.'

Hume then cut to the heavily edited video of the event.

Ray McGovern: ' Why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary, that has caused these kinds of casualties. Why?'

Donald Rumsfeld: 'Well, first of all, I haven't lied. I did not lie then. Colin Powell didn't lie. He spent weeks and weeks with the CIA people and prepared a presentation that I know he believed was accurate, and he presented that to the UN. The President spent weeks and weeks with the CIA, and he went to the American people and made a presentation. I am not in the intelligence business. They gave the world their honest opinion, it appears there were not WMDs there.'

RM: 'You said you knew where they were.'

DR: 'I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were.'

Comment: This was the first portion of the video that was edited. This is the portion that was removed:

RM: :You said you knew where they were Tikrit, Baghdad, northeast, south, west of there. Those are your words.'

DR: 'My words.... my words were that .... no, no, no wait a minute, wait a minute. Let him stay one second. Just a second.'

RM: 'This is America, Huh.'

DR: 'You’re getting plenty of play, sir.'

RM: 'I’d just like an honest answer.'

DR: 'I’m giving it to you.'

The disgusting propaganda continued ...