Memo to Mehlman Interviewers: Rnc Chair Tells the Same Lies Over and Over About Rove Controversy
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WASHINGTON, July 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In recent media appearances, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ken Mehlman has issued numerous distortions and falsehoods regarding allegations of White House senior adviser Karl Rove's involvement in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Cable news hosts Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews failed to question Mehlman's various falsehoods, allowing him to misinform unchallenged and at length. Media Matters for America offers the following breakdown of Mehlman's lies, and the facts that rebut them.
Mehlman is scheduled to appear on the July 17 editions of NBC's Meet the Press and CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.See the full content of this document
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Memo to Mehlman Interviewers: Rnc Chair Tells the Same Lies Over and Over About Rove Controversy
Lie no. 1: Wilson falsely claimed Cheney sent him to Niger
In an attack on the credibility of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, Plame's husband, Mehlman twice claimed that it was Vice President Dick Cheney who sent him to Niger in 2002 to investigate a rumored sale of yellowcake uranium to Iraq. As Media Matters for...See the full content of this document
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