ABC News and why the press is not to be trusted.

Glenn Greenwald describes the shoddy and unsupported news report from ABC News claiming that Iran might have a nuke by 2009. The news report makes an unsupported assertion that

Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.

The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009, sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade tell ABC News.

Note that these assertions were from an anonymous source and are not accompanied by any hint that the source had any real knowledge on the subject. I've heard more reliable gossip from a drunk who I did not know who was sitting at a hotel bar.

Yet, as Glenn goes on to point out, this was quickly picked up by the liar-in-chief at one of his press conferences and used to try to rachet American fear of the Iranians up to the point of war, just as he did with Iraq.

This is shoddy news reporting. I wonder if it originated from a Bush partisan?