White House: New York Times Is "Pernicious and Troubling"

Wow. Just wow. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino just made a public statement demanding the New York Times issue a correction of today’s lead story on the CIA torture tape scandal. Perino’s statement in full follows.

The New York Times today implies that the White House has been misleading in publicly acknowledging or discussing details related to the CIA’s decision to destroy interrogation tapes.

The sub-headline of the story inaccurately says that the “White House Role Was Wider Than It Said”, and the story states that “…the involvement of White House officials in the discussions before the destruction of the tapes…was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.”

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