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Major White House Blunder: Emails Maliki Story to Reporters

blogs.abcnews.com — White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan. The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.

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  • marabout40, on 07/19/2008, -4/+92Hmmm. Not so sure that was a mistake on the part of that employee. :D Hee hee.
    • wisefool9, on 07/19/2008, -4/+35Yeah sounds more like the move of someone who grew a conscience.
    • flink405, on 07/19/2008, -33/+3Thank goodness for the surge of troops so that U.S. can bring about a safer Iraq that can be governed by a democratically elected government.
      If it wasn´t for the surge of troops and the U.S. had followed Obama´s advice for surrender, er, pulling all the U.S. troops out, then the Prime Minister of Iraq would calling for help because of the deadly civil war tearing his country apart and the violence of a growing al Queda in Iraq.
      Thank you U.S. troops for the great job and thank you John McCain for always calling for more troops to stem the violence in Iraq.
      • RAGEdemon, on 07/19/2008, -3/+16Epic Fail.
      • orangefly, on 07/19/2008, -2/+12tool....
      • bluezinc, on 07/19/2008, -3/+11Obvious troll is obvious.
      • flogistan, on 07/19/2008, -3/+2Actually, my first thought was that they sent the e-mail to the wrong place on purpose because most americans think the the tool above.
      • djholybolt, on 07/19/2008, -2/+5FACE PALM.

        The leaders of Iraq are asking us to get out soon, btw!
    • bluezinc, on 07/19/2008, -1/+27Does anybody also think that this shouldn't really be described as a "major" white house blunder? I mean, compared to their usual ***** ups (Iraq, Katrina, Jeff Gannon, etc) this is really mild in comparison.
      • chicofaraby, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4No one died.
      • bluezinc, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14This is almost a relief that nothing worse happened. They didn't accidentally nuke England or email a declaration of war to the Chinese.
      • stagmire, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6McCain's strategy for attacking Obama's Iraq policy just died.
      • bjornski, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3So did the "Obama wants to negotiate with Iran" angle, as the current administration sent an envoy to Geneva to "negotiate with terrorists".
      • cyberprunes, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3It's major with respect to effect it has on the republican race to the white house.
        It's a major blow to the argument that Obama doesn't know what he's talking about and is ill equiped to be commander in chief.

        All in all it's just one more notch on the equatorial sized belt of incompetence.
    • filmbandit, on 07/19/2008, -9/+6yes, what a sinister plan -- distribute a reuters story that was already distributed by reuters.
  • SheilaNoya, on 07/19/2008, -7/+68This story just put a huge smile on my face.

    Once again, the bumbling fools in the Bush Administration blow it and prove how utterly incompetent they are at everything they do.

    A story meant only for "internal" distribution gets sent to "international" distribution. I love it!



    • Naieve, on 07/19/2008, -1/+9Wrong button my ass.
    • Dozernotz, on 07/19/2008, -8/+1Hey does anyone know if the stunts and accidents in TV wrestling are real?

      Did this get buried because it's irrelevant?
      • marabout40, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3No, but you did. Buried.
      • Dozernotz, on 07/19/2008, -1/+0Ha, clever, but also not surprising from someone who only comes here for the politics articles. Didn't mean to question the legitimacy of your hobby. Sorry.
    • whatthefu, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5And yet people still think 9/11 was an inside job.
      • rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3so true --

        One can imagine when the next attack happens the Republicans will be saying "Trust us, we're from the Government and see, there was an another attack, so we must need even more power to protect you."
      • GassyTurd, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2They make themselves look incompetent on purpose.
    • LukasSmith, on 07/20/2008, -9/+4Ahaahah once again the democrats prove how the love to masturbate to op eds from biased repoters across America. Bush Admin has been raping the Democrats for 8 years straight. NOt doing anything right? Screwing up everything they do? I think not. Besides this story sounds like a democrats wet dream. Thats why I believe it is false. Would take a lot more then a biased opinion piece artist to make me believe.
      • krebcycle, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6did you read the Reuters story quoting Maliki, or are you just making retarded noises again as usual? What exactly is false again?
      • LukasSmith, on 07/20/2008, -9/+1umm hello to krab perhaps you should stick to the topic which is, the email distribution. Thats what I was talking about. Wether it was intentional or not. Your noises are irratating and they smell bad too.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4That's what you get when you select personnel based on their degrees of religious fervor and political fanaticism.
  • alapoet, on 07/19/2008, -3/+33Give 'em enough rope!
  • rebrane, on 07/19/2008, -3/+62Imagine if it was the other way around -- if Maliki had blasted Obama's plan and said it was irresponsible and wrong for Iraq. You can bet the White House would be blasting -that- article around till November.
    • mousers1968, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10yup
    • Dazer, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Yar!
    • flink405, on 07/19/2008, -14/+2But everyone is forgetting the part of the news article where Maliki says if everything continues to go well (thanks to surge of US troops).
      If not, they want the U.S. troops to stay longer.
      • motivatedmama, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Context please. I believe the intent is clear. The sooner the better.
    • Dozernotz, on 07/19/2008, -2/+7People are always calling politics a dog and pony show. But I've always thought it was a lot more like a sports rivalry. Create a myth out of 2 opposing sides, heroes and villains, epic battles, legends born, jerseys retired, and sell the ***** out of tickets.

      This whole lib/con thing wouldn't be anything like that would it?
  • dumpyhumpy, on 07/19/2008, -3/+28Bush and Co should just step down now. They're just wasting time and making halfass politically-weighted decisions.
    • Dragular, on 07/19/2008, -20/+3halfass? This article says Maliki supports Obama's 16-month-from-taking-office pullout plan. The same plan Obama now says he never said. If Bush is halfass, what's Obama, an Alzheimer's patient?
      • zephyear, on 07/19/2008, -0/+14" The same plan Obama now says he never said. "

        what the *****? did you just make that ***** up?

        because i followed the entire primary season AND 16 MONTHS WAS HIS POSITION THROUGH ALL OF IT
      • DooM, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13Wrong wrong wrong, Dragular. What Obama said was that his GOAL was to get them out in 16 months but that if commanders on the ground told him that it wasn't safe for our troops to depart on that timetable that his immediate concern was their safety so what he WON'T do is 16 months and ***** the consequences. Do you really prefer that we let guys die to keep an arbitrary timeline..? Nice try, but the talking points only work when the other side is miserably misinformed - try forums.foxnews.com, they'll buy your BS no problem.
      • sulthernao, on 07/19/2008, -0/+11Classic GOP ***** tactic. Unfortunately too many people fall for it.
      • FrenchAnarchy, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13Maybe not a good move to bring up Alzheimer's when the candidate you support is into his 70's...
      • Dragular, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1Hey *****:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMTGIh6N6I

        Of course, it's from Fox News. Which of course means every word he says is actually someone doing a voiceover, right? Because he couldn't be that insane about it right?
      • PhoenixAvatar2, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2I watched your video and when did Obama claim he never said 16 months? The man's been making a very strict promise, one that I thought was a bit too heavy handed and now he's loosening up on it for a very good reason. If the commanders feel that troops could be killed by following a plan then the people in charge should change it and adjust, rather than staying the flawed course.
  • AAK15, on 07/19/2008, -4/+59lol its amazing how the simplest thing, such as email, perplexes this administration.
    • marabout40, on 07/19/2008, -2/+14and McSame!
      • FrenchAnarchy, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9What is this... intenets... very confusing
      • bjornski, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7The other tube must have been too full to carry those messages.
    • hobbitaussie, on 07/19/2008, -3/+2Right - you've *never* accidentally sent an email to the wrong person. It happens. Sheesh.
      • Dozernotz, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Actually I can't remember the last time that happened. In fact, out of all the years I've been using email I don't know if it ever happened. Certainly not with anything of any kind of importance. Guess I must just be a total genius.

        I have a hard time believing an administration with a successful culture of secrecy would have made a "mistake" like this. But as you say, it happens.
      • cyberprunes, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Stupid is as stupid does. - Forrest Gump
      • bjornski, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I never have.

        What point are you trying to make?
    • PhillyMJS, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8They may not do so well at sending it, but they seem to have a pretty good handle on deleting it.
    • kinerry, on 07/20/2008, -3/+2but apparently 9/11 was an inside job?
  • oohdoiloveyou, on 07/19/2008, -3/+26Even if the MSM wanted to bury the Maliki news, this additional White House episode will continue to call attention to the original story making it extra newsworthy
    • tidu, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Actually this news is all over the MSM; if I hear "time horizon" one more time I'm gonna kill myself.
      • DooM, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9Seriously - does this administration really think that if they use a synonym for "Time Table" we won't realize that he's now doing what he claimed would be disastrous up until a week ago..?
      • rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2DooM -- Your question is rhetorical, correct?
  • mousers1968, on 07/19/2008, -2/+16I feel confident this one will work its way through at least the Sunday talk shows-
    It goes along with the Republican strategist that just stated "we're F%$*ed." It is a good Day today.
    • solidcube, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Come to think of it, it's been a good year.
  • AxmxZ, on 07/19/2008, -1/+15The Mole (White House).
  • sachinag, on 07/19/2008, -3/+36Honestly, this is shameful that it's not the lead story on CNN.com right now. al-Maliki endorsed Obama's plan; is McCain going to say he knows better than the elected head of the sovereign Iraqi government? As pointed out by Ezra Klein, you know this would be the top story if it were the other way around: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archi ...
  • TeddySanFran, on 07/19/2008, -1/+18Just goes to show how the MSM gets its story tips: they are White House stenographers, and do little reporting themselves.
  • Lahonda, on 07/19/2008, -1/+12Mistake? Or perhaps a lamenting leaker...
  • mousers1968, on 07/19/2008, -1/+18Here are some places that we can contact the MSM to see if they might think about coverage. The more we hound the more the meat sticks talk. I thought I would add fox for giggles

    http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

    letters@msnbc.com

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
  • chrissku, on 07/19/2008, -3/+12As if McCain needs anything else to go wrong. I'm starting to feel bad for that old fart.
    • cyberprunes, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Don't feel bad. He spent years in a North Vietnamese prison camp.
      He's a cancer survivor.
      He can take it.

    • motivatedmama, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1No can digg. I hope he's subjected to this kind of misfortune till November. He chose his path.
  • ShimonDigg, on 07/19/2008, -2/+14Hilarious

    08ama
  • gnat74, on 07/19/2008, -20/+2Sorry I don't trust a ABC blog...Think about it
  • Zaxcomp, on 07/19/2008, -0/+41So they have an "email all the media button"? That sounds like a terrible idea.
    • nick1971, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8They wanted to implement a filter GWB errors from the outside world but the Visual Basic code was too long for outlook to process.
    • netneutrality, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5By "terrible" you mean "brilliant", I presume.
    • rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Actually, I'd like to know the answer to that question....
  • vkiperman, on 07/19/2008, -2/+15Accident? No. Freudian.
  • borez, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13Just where is this "send to everybody I shouldn't " email button, I can't seem to find it on my client.
  • trackerbishop, on 07/19/2008, -2/+8Hit the wrong button? Pretty suspect, sounds like this is another phony "leak" that the government WANTS you to know about but think they didn't want you to know
    • ByteGuerilla, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8Arg! Don't post that we know about that here! Now the government knows we know.

      At least they don't know we know that they know we know... aww *****.
  • dcollins, on 07/19/2008, -0/+17This is why its important that our president knows how to use the internet.
  • Draculecom, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8Blunder? What else is new, it's exactly what we expect from those knobs.
  • PosedMagnet, on 07/19/2008, -6/+1Children of the Corn?
    • marabout40, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3Republicans Lose 1 Million Registered Voters

      In the 29 states (plus the District of Columbia) where voter affiliation is kept by party, the Democrats have scored perceptible gains since the presidential election of 2004 while the Republicans have suffered significant losses. To be specific, the number of registered Democrats in party registration states has grown by nearly 700,000 since President George W. Bush was reelected in November 2004, while the total of registered Republicans has declined by almost 1 million. http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Republicans_Lose ...

      Sowwy!
  • zephyear, on 07/19/2008, -1/+25help i am not good with computer how did this get here
  • Speed, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10"Hit the wrong button" in the same sense as someone who texts his ex-gf when drunk?
    • bjornski, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2"Honey, stop trashing my car and throwing my stuff out of the house! I didn't mean to send you that pic! I just hit 'ho' instead of 'homies'!"
  • RevLoki, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8Whoopsie Daisy!
  • flink405, on 07/19/2008, -7/+3The whole story is not being reported correctly.
    Everyone is missing the part where Maliki says if everything continues to go well.
    If not, they want the U.S. troops to stay longer.
    • Naieve, on 07/19/2008, -1/+4Personally i expect Maliki wants us to leave. He has firmly cemented his power base.

      He and his Shia have taken firm control of the Security forces and comprise a large portion of the Militias.

      They are ready right now to take what they want.

      Why do you think we supported the Awakening Movement?

      We are trying to stop the slaughter that will happen due to our early withdrawal.
    • rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3My dream scenario is to see the Status of Forces agreement fail and US troops have to leave before GW's term is over.

      We'll see if GW respects the rule of law in Iraq as much as he respects it here...
    • krebcycle, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Maliki has long stated that he wants us to leave.
  • peticsu, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8deep throat is back
  • kalvinb, on 07/19/2008, -19/+2Obama proposed this plan back in January. Nearly 7 months ago.

    It was rejected then as irresponsible.

    Obama claimed the troop surge would fail.

    The troop surge succeeded.

    Now leaving in less than 2 years is possible. Thanks in no part to Obama.
    • orangefly, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5the surge has not worked....there are just less people left to kill....stop watching fox "news"....
    • hockeyplayer66, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1now, now, don't get upset...just finish your cup of kool-aid.
  • ulsterwrod, on 07/19/2008, -19/+2Obama *opposed* the surge. He voted *against* it. He doesn't have any judgement in this area. But the Liberal media is trying to make it appear as though he does, to attempt installing him in the White House.
  • King0007, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8Just hit CNN oops

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/19/almaliki ...
  • vexingmodstwo, on 07/19/2008, -18/+3Wow. Slow news day? The White House accidentally (or not) forwards a NEWS REPORT to NEWS REPORTERS? And not only that, it was an ALREADY PUBLISHED news report?

    OMG! This is the big one! The one that proves it all!

    Morons.

  • biggychong, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7This is what happens when they let bush use a computer.
  • Twenty, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Beautiful
  • spamcrusher, on 07/19/2008, -2/+8Major blunder? Being a bit over dramatic there I'd say. Blunder, yes, but something that will be forgotten about by Monday. Wake me up when an employee of the White House accidentally e-mails the press a picture of Cheney eating puppies for dinner.
    • gamekid, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, Cheney's smarter than that.

      He eats the puppies for breakfast at 4:30am. Then he finds and eats the hidden cameras, as if Sauron could see their Ring.
  • nastronomical, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8Maliki finally understands washington politics....he is playing both sides.



    Buy this man a beer, he deserves it.
    • Fogdelune, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1He may have already had a few, and hit the wrong button.
  • nastronomical, on 07/19/2008, -10/+1The whole story is not being reported correctly.
    Everyone is missing the part where Maliki says if everything continues to go well.
    If not, they want the U.S. troops to stay longer.
  • WriterY, on 07/19/2008, -2/+5Yeah right! Kind of along the same lines as putting the left shoe on the right foot. Oh boy, isn't that an easy mistake to make? Just off hand I'd say never, ever, ever, ever, ever believe a freakin' word that flies out of that FILTHY, DIRTY place. Which is only unclean because of all the greedy scum that claim the leadership role...
  • filmbandit, on 07/19/2008, -5/+5i'm no GW fan but this sure doesn't feel like a "major blunder" -- the white house accidentally distributes a *reuters* story that reuters already published?

    whoo-- what a ***** up!
    and nobody reads that major news syndicate reuters anyway -- cats out of the bag now!

    dugg down for not being a story

  • stagmire, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5Maliki: ***** McCain and his plan.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,5 ...

    But then, apparently referring to Republican candidate John McCain's more open-ended Iraq policy, Maliki said: "Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems."
  • HasturGA, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5Nastronomical: Just because you post the same thing, word for word and character for character under two nicks (the other being flink105), doesn't make you any more right. All it means is that you think if you keep saying the same thing over and over, it will make it right. And honestly, that's a fairly standard GOP tactic.

    As for "time horizon" vs. "time table", well... the Republicans have been very good historically at providing good-sounding names that completely misrepresent what they are... "Patriot Act" or "Clear Skies Act" anyone? The first removed constitutionally provided civil liberties under the guise of patriotism while the patriotic thing to do would have been to fight terrorism without destroying the very things this country stands for. The second presents itself as an anti-pollution bill but actually increased the amount of allowable pollution. There are plenty of others but this is a Digg post, not a 500 page text book.
  • deleo, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4I wish Obama could just take charge now so they could implement it. Still, it's only a little over 3 months away from Obama's transition team taking over and starting to put it into action. I imagine that many of these world leaders would prefer to talk to Obama at this point than our lame duck President.

    This statement by Maliki marks the end of the Bush Administration and the beginning of the Obama administration. The end of the war is finally within site.
    • kipmartin, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5An Obama presidency is not assured. I am an Obama guy but i also understand the battle for the red states he has to fight.

      complacency could beat Obama.
      • rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1As well as the Democratic Party's seeming inability to wrestle a victory from the jaws of defeat....
  • alloystudios, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4With no video possible and without a transcription of the actual email, the MSM won't pick this story up. Unfortunately, the news today has become more like the movies and less like the newspapers. If you read a movie script, there is very little dialogue because the pictures tell the story. And today, without pictures to tell their stories, the MSM doesn't attempt to just report the ACTUAL news. Think about the parachuting guy who ran into those tuba players this week. Normally not a story outside of that base's daily paper, but add video and it's suddenly a 3-day national story. It's pathetic.
  • kipmartin, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3'presses wrong button'? i dont think so. what button would that be? it would take thought and a few extra steps to do that. even if they have Email Groups set up, it would take 3 'mistakes' to send an email statement out to the wrong people.

    a mistake? my ass!
  • rationalbeats, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7McCain Responds: What al Maliki says doesn't matter

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/19/171530/082 ...
  • alloystudios, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6We've been looking at Nouri al-Maliki as an incompetent leader because he hasn't been able to enact any meaningful political progress in his country during the troop surge, which was the point of the surge in the first place. I think it's more likely that his political progress has been minimized if not inhibited to prolong our occupation of Iraq. We gave them democracy, they elected al-Maliki to lead them, and he wants us out. If we wanted to stay this long, we should have just installed a dictator (like we did in Iran and Panama).
  • thewump, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2"Hit the wrong button"? What friggin email software do they use? Does it have a one big button for internal, and a different big button for press?
  • totorototoro, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10This would never happen in a McCain White House...if you don't even know how to turn on a computer, you can't possibly send out accidental emails :p
    • cyberprunes, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5In McCain's white house there will actually be a series of tubes to shuffle messages around.
    • hockeyplayer66, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Oh, he knows how to turn it on. He just hasn't realized yet that its not a foot warmer to keep under his blanket.

      In his mind, its kind of a modern day bed warmer like he used to fill with hot ashes and put in his bed when he was a kid and his folks drove their covered wagon to Arizona.

      http://www.rubylane.com/shops/blueheron/item/ax202 ...
  • cyberprunes, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6General Time Horizon. I love that ***** name. Guess how much time it takes to get to horizon!
    • withears, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2But it's not a "timeline" - Bush said that she'd never agree to a "timeline."

      This is just a time "horizon."

      Don't forget - With McAnus, you get 4 more years of this ***** up *****.
  • Chuckles996, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Clicked the wrong button. Hmmm..... We trust these people with the nuclear launch codes? No wait, that's the darn clear entry button again. Curse these hands. Errrr!!!!
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