{"id":1170,"date":"2006-04-06T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2006-04-06T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:22:29","slug":"bbc-needs-a-copy-editor-mr-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bbc-needs-a-copy-editor-mr-scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC needs a copy editor, Mr Scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4885100.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4885100.stm<br \/>\n<\/a> at 9:57 EDT (US) and still there at 10:22 pm [Note site reads:  Last Updated: Friday, 7 April 2006, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK ]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pre-trial court papers cite Lewis &#8220;Libby&#8221; Scooter as saying he was told to tell a reporter Iraq was &#8220;vigorously trying to procure&#8221; uranium.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Scooter, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, is facing trial in connection with another leak.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of lying to prosecutors probing the naming of a CIA agent.<\/p>\n<p>Former diplomat Joseph Wilson &#8211; husband of the agent, Valerie Plame &#8211; wrote a high-profile article in the New York Times in July 2003 casting doubt on a key White House claim about Saddam Hussein&#8217;s pursuit of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Libby reportedly says in court papers filed on Wednesday that soon afterwards, Mr Cheney told him to pass information from the classified National Intelligence Estimate to Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4885100.stm at 9:57 EDT (US) and still there at 10:22 pm [Note site reads: Last Updated: Friday, 7 April 2006, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK ] Pre-trial court papers cite Lewis &#8220;Libby&#8221; Scooter as saying he was told to tell a reporter Iraq was &#8220;vigorously trying to procure&#8221; uranium. Mr Scooter, former chief-of-staff to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}