In 2006, Roughly Three Years After the U

question 30

Multiple Choice

In 2006, roughly three years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a New York Times story with a revelation about what went largely unreported on the major television news outlets?

• A) British reports that Washington had "cooked the books" to justify a war in Iraq
• B) the so-called Downing Street memo
• C) an informational committee hearing lead by Rep. John Conyers about the misuse of intelligence
• D) an incident in which Vice President Dick Cheney shot a long-time friend in the face while hunting
• E) a meeting between George W. Bush and Tony Blair in which Bush indicated that he would go to war with Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction

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