WARNER: Good afternoon.
I'm primarily here at your request and share with you what facts I do have on this really serious problem.
I had strong comments on this the other day when I came out and said that I was gravely concerned, and I remain gravely concerned about this situation. And I promptly contacted Secretary Rumsfeld's office, and he has been 100 percent cooperative in trying to inform me as to what he knows at this point and the steps that he and his colleagues in the department are now taking.
So we arranged that we would meet today. Originally I had contemplated having it here, but in later reflection this morning I decided -- I was on the way from my home, went right by the Pentagon, and I went over and they briefed me in the office there of Di Rita and the secretary who's in charge of legislative affairs.
But I want to step back and talk just a minute about what I said yesterday, because I stand by those statements of my concern about any actions that could undermine the credibility of our great nation and indeed the profession of journalism.
Now, they're confronted with a serious problem over there in Iraq -- I've now finished my sixth visit just two months ago -- and that is disinformation. An enormous amount of information is being fed the Iraqi press, both written and television, that is just plain factually wrong.
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