CableNewser has another scoop - this time, it’s a letter from Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to journalists who are covering the war in Iraq.
The letter is in response to a statement Wolfowitz made on Tuesday in front of the House Armed Services Committee that “came out much differently” than he expected. He was attempting to share the frustration he had about how some news reporting was being done in Iraq when he said “Frankly, part of our problem is a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad and they publish rumors.” [Howard Kurtz, WaPo, June 24]
Reportedly, this letter was handed out to staffers of at least one news network in Iraq within the last hour.
