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(ABC News - Brian) Ross Responds to "Vital Questions" About Anthrax Report
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... air the White House called and said it was not bentonite. That's all they said," Ross tells TVNewser. "I spent the weekend going back to all the sources saying, 'What's going on here guys?'" ... The idea the ABC report contributed to the White House's case for war with Iraq was dismissed by Ross. "The people who say the White House lied to us to build a case on Iraq or something doesn't hold," he said, citing it was the White House who denied it was bentonite from day one. Read more: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc/ross_responds_t...
Remainders: Cookie break on O-Force One
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Brian Ross says "you're only as good as your sources," and Bruce Ivins wasn't one of them. (Judy Miller once told me the ...
Bentonite Revisited
Political Animal —
BENTONITE REVISITED.... Shortly after the 2001 anthrax attacks, Brian Ross of ABC News reported that government tests showed that the spores contained traces of bentonite, a substance linked with Saddam Hussein's bioweapons program. But that wasn't true. So did Ross's sources lie to him? Today he talked to TVNewser and says they didn't: Ross tells us, "Our sources were current and former government scientists who were all involved in analyzing the substance in the letter." ...."Their initial conclusion, based on microscopic examination was a brown substance that initially was ...
