'The Note' Falls for the Trap

We talked yesterday about the anonymice administration background briefings, and lo and behold, here’s The Note today quoting the same exact thing:

When a White House official conceded in a pre-speech background briefing (the truth) that the personal accounts plan would not save the system the President described as being in peril, that got the day off to a fine straight-talk start.

Is this the same authorized “background briefer” that the Times quoted yesterday? In that case it was Dan Bartlett, the former communications director and counselor to the president, whose extensive White House bio

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