Letters to the Editor
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Couric toeing the line at CBS also
When Couric first started at "60 Minutes" she led off with an interview of Condi Rice. Condi stated, regarding the invasion of Iraq, that the administration's intelligence, "was the best we had at the time." Couric let that monstrous lie slide by, despite the Downing Street Memo, despite Joseph Wilson, despite all the warnings about "Curveball," despite the regular resignations from the military and administration staff and the cabinet and the tell-all books that followed, despite the differing opinions from the French, Germans and others, despite Scott Ritter, despite reporting from Robert Fisk, Sy Hersch, Juan Cole and so many other truly well-informed correspondents, despite Chalabi's obvious distortions and perhaps worst of all, despite picking through the detailed mass of intelligence delivered by then-defector Hussein Kamal in 1995 to both claim proof of the existence of WMDs while at the same time denying the testimony as to their destruction, mostly back in 1991. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1845
To anyone who read Congressman Ron Paul's statements made on 10/3/02 and 10/8/02 and others made during the runup to the invasion, it was quite obvious that the information and predictions emanating therefrom as well as a cogent analysis of the facts (such as the hostility between secularist Saddam and theocrat bin Laden) were readily available to anyone in D.C. who spent a few hours thinking about them. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul57.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul58.html
So for Couric to ignore all that information and to accept Condi's nonsense as not worthy of further probing leads one to believe that though she had left NBC, she retained the corporate "don't ask, don't tell" atmosphere that prevailed there.
I was so incensed at the time that I wrote Couric a lengthy snail mail letter on the subject. I received no response.