Pants On Fire

It’s sadly infrequent that one of the Bush Gang (Rumsfeld) is called during such a flagrant attempted deception. Here’s the text:

Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you’re the–you and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase “immediate threat.” I didn’t.
SCHIEFFER: You’re saying that nobody in the administration said that.
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Sec. RUMSFELD: Not–if–if you have any citations, I’d like to see ’em.
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Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one here. It says “some have argued that the nu”–this is you speaking–“that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain.”
Sec. RUMSFELD: And–and…
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Mr. FRIEDMAN: “No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”