Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT!
At yesterday's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about WorldNetDaily's story of fake rape photos that appeared on Arab websites.
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WND: Scott, what was the president's reaction to WorldNetDaily's report that photographs circulating all over the Middle East that depict American soldiers raping Iraqi women are false and originated on porn sites, so that our embassy in Cairo issued this statement: "We have done a thorough investigation of the origin of these photos and have conclusive evidence that they originated on a pornographic website. They are clearly staged photos done by actors, as the site itself states"? And I have a follow-up.
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McCLELLAN: Les, I don't know what's being sent around the Internet in terms of pictures that may be real or may not be real. The president has made it very clear that there are people who are opposed to freedom who will seek to take advantage of this situation. And what we've got to do is show the world that we take this matter very seriously, that we act on it and that we bring people to justice, and we work to make sure that nothing like this happens again.
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WND: The Federal Bureau of Prisons public-relations office this morning was unable to say how many of our 104 federal prisons have male wardens of female prisons, or female wardens of male prisons. But presuming the number of female wardens of male prisons is small, my question: Why, in a Muslim country, was a female general assigned to head all 12 of our military prisons and detention camps with such disastrous results?
McCLELLAN: Well, Les, that may be one you want to address to the military.
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