DNC new ad about Bush not sharing intelligence with Congress

DNC ad:

http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/video/ads/20051216_truth.wmv


Report: Administration Did Not Share Full Iraq Intelligence with Congress

A new, independent report concludes that repeated assertions by administration officials that Congress saw "the same intelligence" on Iraqi WMD are false. The Washington Post reports:

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/12/full_iraq_intel.php


From link at DNC site:

Congressional Research Service debunks "same intelligence" lie media has reported uncritically for years

For months, the Bush administration has claimed that Congress saw the "same intelligence" President Bush saw prior to the Iraq war. Bush himself has said it -- 102 times in all, according to The Washington Post's Dana Milbank -- in speeches carried live on cable news networks and quoted extensively in print and broadcast news stories. His surrogates also reflexively repeat the claim every time questions are raised about the administration's handling of prewar intelligence. Their point is clear: critics of the administration's use of intelligence are dishonest since Congress reviewed the same intelligence and authorized the use of force against Iraq.

Of course, it isn't true that, say, for example, some obscure junior member of Congress had the same access to intelligence as the president of the United States. The claim that they did is so obviously, laughably false, it's hard to believe anyone could take it seriously. Yet, the false claim appeared in every major news organization in the country, over and over again. Some reports merely quoted it without rebutting it; interviewers failed to challenge guests who made the false claim; media figures adopted the obviously false spin as fact; and news reports watered down Bush's claim, thus avoiding having to correct it.

Media repetition of the claim without debunking it has been nearly constant. A few of the many examples:


more...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512170001#1

What a terrible euphemism. "Media figures adopted the obvious lie as fact."

Call it what it is, dammit.

Edited for minor typo

...going by the audio part of that commercial, only, it sounds like it's intended to support the contention that Congress had the same intelligence as the White House. Maybe voices should be reading the documents that they show.