May 05, 2006

As Karl Rove would tell you, it's not technically lying when you simply don't share all the facts.

Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment.

"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session.

"I did not lie," shot back Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern from the hall at the Southern Center for International Studies.

With Iraq war support remaining low, it is not unusual for top Bush administration officials to encounter protests and hostile questions. But the outbursts Rumsfeld confronted on Thursday seemed beyond the usual.
[Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst - AP - 05-04-06]

UPDATE 11:59: Check out Volunteer Voters side by side of Rumsfeld's own words saying he knew exactly where the WMD were and then Rumsfeld telling the heckling CIA analyst that he never said that.