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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (18401)3/2/2006 8:54:50 PM
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The AP Katrina Briefing Story - Rathergate Connection

By: Kevin Aylward
Wizbang

Yesterday, in looking at the AP piece on the Bush Katrina briefings (Rewriting Katrina History - AP Style), I had this to stay about the AP's work:
    ...[I]t has all the hallmarks of the Bush Air National 
    Guard story on 60 Minutes II by Dan Rather and Mary 
    Mapes. The AP has dressed up mundane video to try and 
    prove that President Bush (and everyone else) knew that 
    the levees in New Orleans were going to breech. The 
    problem is the evidence they present in their story to 
    make that point does nothing of the sort.
It turns out that there's much more to that analogy than even I knew at the time. Have a look at the byline to the AP story:

<<< By MARGARET EBRAHIM and JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON (AP) - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. >>>

Here's an interesting detail on someone who certainly looks like one of the story authors from the French-American Foundation's membership roles:


Margaret Ebrahim (2003)
Producer
CBS News, 60 Minutes II

This CBS News page confirms that a Margaret Ebrahim was a 60 Minutes II producer in 2005. Ironically it was Mary Mapes who gave her away...

What are the odds that there are two people with that name, one an AP writer and one a CBS News producer? I'm guessing they're minuscule. The odds are that it's the same person in a new job.

Given the tatters the story has been shredded into by the blogosphere, it's hardly surprising that it comes from an alum of 60 Minutes II...

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