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ABC's Tapper claimed "inherent contradiction" in Clinton's Iraq statements but left out context refuting his claim

February 13, 2007 5:04 pm ET

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SUMMARY: Jake Tapper baselessly claimed that an "inherent contradiction" exists between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's statements prior to her 2002 vote to authorize the use of force against Iraq and her recent explanation of that vote. Tapper's report suggested that Clinton had not advocated further U.N. inspections in Iraq before an invasion, but she did so in the same 2002 interview from which Tapper quoted.

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