Bush wrote, "It dawned on me what he was referring to. "Vladimir, are you talking about Dan Rather?' I asked. He said he was. I said, "I strongly suggest you not say that in public. The American people will think you don't understand our system.'"
However, the sad truth may be that the authoritarian Putin understood how the American system worked all too well.
Bush's new revelation that the White House was quick to spot and presumably exploit inadequacies in the CBS memos suggests that the removal of Dan Rather wasn't entirely without high-level manipulation.
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