Democrats on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee have produced a web page titled "Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap," which contrasts statements by George W. Bush at various photo ops around the country with his actual deeds.

"On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of the Iraq crisis," FAIR writes. "In a revelation that 'raises questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist,' the magazine's issue dated March 3 reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told U.N. inspectors that Iraq had destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles, as Iraq claims." The CIA denied the Newsweek story. FAIR reports a copy of the complete transcript of Gen. Hussein Kamel's debriefing by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the U.N. inspections team known as UNSCOM was obtained by Glen Rangwala, "the Cambridge University analyst who in early February revealed that Tony Blair's 'intelligence dossier' was plagiarized from a student thesis."

PR Watch has reported previously on the dietary supplement industry's successful campaign to evade federal safety regulations. Now O'Dywer's PR Daily reports that the Ephedra Education Council (EEC), a PR front created by the PR firm of Aker Partners, is "handling crisis PR to counter a media firestorm following the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler." A coroner's report suggested that Bechler's death could be linked to ephedra, and the Food and Drug Administration has reports of at least 100 deaths and thousands of adverse reactions linked to the supplement. The EEC has been trying to suppress or attack scientific studies critical of ephedra, including a study last year that found it was "by far the most dangerous herbal product on the market."