WaPo's Dana Milbank and the Downing Street Memo

In his article on the informal hearings Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo, Dana Milbank wrote:

The glitches and the antiwar theatrics proved something of a distraction from the message the organizers aimed to deliver: that for the Bush White House, as lawyer John C. Bonifaz put it, the British memo is "the equivalent to the revelation that there was a taping system in the Nixon White House."

Unfortunately, Milbank was sucked in completely by those theatrics and by the sub-standard setting for the hearing. Instead of providing balanced reporting - which would include a critique of the testimony that was subjective along with a review of the testimony that was not, he took an entirely dismissive approach to the whole thing.

Sure, the hearing was in a basement. But he neglected to mention that Republicans denied Rep. Conyers the use of a hearing room in the Capitol. And yes, some of the testimony was opinion outside the mainstream. But the most compelling testimony was that of John Bonifaz, who repeatedly highlighted the inconsistency between the information contained in the British documents and the information that President Bush provided Congress when he requested authorization to use force against Iraq.

The point made by Bonifaz, which is a legitimate and important one, is that if President Bush willfully misinformed Congress then it's an impeachable offense. He's calling for an inquiry - not an impeachment - and made it clear that if an inquiry showed that inaccuracies in the information provided by Bush were truly and solely due to poor intelligence of a fundamental breakdown in the communication channels between the intelligence community and the administration, that we'd close the chapter on this issue. He's not a crackpot and he's not making wild claims. Milbank conveniently ignored him.

Instead, he picked the low hanging fruit and highlighted one witnesses opinionated testimony on why Bush went to war. He dismissed the woman whose son died in Iraq as lacking objectivity - which she made clear she did. He described the Conyers group as "playing house" and highlighted the more extreme positions of activists and supporters, minimizing the real issues that exist. He neglected to mention the 560,000 US citizens that signed a petition asking for answers to questions raised by the Downing Street Memo. Are we all crackpots, extremists, folks playing house instead of dealing in reality?

Dana Milbank did his readers a disservice and his editors let it pass, publishing an opinion piece that was mascarading as news.

So much for the vaunted liberal media.

UPDATE: I'm not the only one upset by the amateur and incomplete coverage provided by Dana Milbank. Rep. Conyers wrote a letter to the editors of the Washington Post and copied the Raw Story on it. The letter is an excellent rebuttal to the incomplete and selective reporting provided by Milbank. Go read it.

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