29
Jan
I was just watching the Rumsfield press conference on MSNBC and one of the reporters asked if he could go into a little bit of what kinds of material (e.g., satellite photographs) Colin Powell would be presenting on February 5th.
Rumsfiled said the President made the case last night and then went through this big spiel about “fact patterns” regarding Iraq’s behvior and how we can pretty much base our conlcusions about Saddam on supposition. He concluded by saying that these patterns were as hard proof of Hussein’s intentions as any satellite photograph and smoking gun. He basically just said there would not be anything like that.
Holy crap.
Does anyone knbow where you can get transcripts of these press conferences?
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2:48 pm on January 29th, 2003
To get a transcript for any press conference, you will need to get in touch with the speaker’s office (for Rumsfeld, you’ll need to get the number for the Sec. of Defense’s office with the DOD). When you get his office on the phone (or via email if you can find an email for the Sec’s Press Secretary), say you’re a member of the press and are requesting a transcript of whatever date, whatever venue… They need somewhere from a few hours to a few days for the “official” transcript to come out, but you can get it faxed or emailed to you when it becomes public.
Alternatively, you can visit the DOD’s News Transcript service (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/briefings.html). The newest briefing I see right now is dated the 27th, but I don’t know if this is a complete database.
Big, long answer to what was probably a slightly tongue-in-cheek question, right?