While I was busy at work outside my office today, which also included listening to a speech by Sect. Hillary Clinton (some interesting tidbits on that later), Jerome Corsi uploaded a swiftboating screed on to WND, adding another chapter to his venomous book of lies. But even though it’s been debunked, as of a few minutes ago it is at the top of WND as “Breaking News.”
Except, of course, Mr. Hasan did not. Via Jason Linkins:
“[Hasan] has no role on the task force, other than the fact that he attended these meetings as an audience member, as did hundreds of others.” Hasan’s name appears on the list of participants only because he provided the HSPI with an RSVP, indicating his attendance. Cilluffo told me, “We always record RSVPs and publish them as a matter of transparency, and will continue to do so.”
That didn’t stop Mr. Corsi, one of the people who concocted the lies about John Kerry, which helped bring down his candidacy. This is Corsi’s opening paragraph:
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama’s transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
Since Linkins’ updated his post that Hasan had “no role on the task force” except as “an audience member,” WND added a quaintly vague “editor’s note” at the bottom of Corsi’s screed. It is the most opaquely vague word grouping that could have possibly been conjured up, simultaneously going to great lengths to ignore the truth. That’s because the right will go to any lengths to smear any Democrat using whatever means necessary.
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