THE SPIN FROM FOGGY BOTTOM :

Bombing Link Swayed Bush : Reported Arafat Payment to Terror Group Shifted Stance (Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus, June 26, 2002, Washington Post)
Here's the State Department spin on why the U.S. "changed" course. It's of course impossible to reconcile the idea that there was such a shift with the preceding 18 months of policy and pronouncements all of which pretty clearly were leading to this moment. But if it makes the striped pants crowd feel better, let them have their own version of events. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2002 1:11 PM