NEW YORK (AP) - The White House on Monday called on NBC News to set the record straight on "deceitful" editing of an interview with President Bush, in which correspondent Richard Engel asks whether comments about the president of Iran were directed at Barack Obama.
Bush aides were angered by how the president's answer was portrayed when Engel questioned him about his condemnation of "the false comfort of appeasement" in an address last week to the Israeli Knesset. NBC stood by its treatment of the interview Monday.
ant to destroy Israel, you've got to take those words seriously."

ABC News' Jennifer Duck Reports: White House Counselor Ed Gillespie sent a scathing letter to NBC News President Steve Capus criticizing the editing of Richard Engel's interview with President Bush in the Middle East amongst other comments made on NBC News.
Gillespie's letter was emailed to a broad political email list and was posted on the White House website.
es not participate in the editorial process at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal or USA Today, NBC News as part of a free press in a free society, makes its own editorial decisions."

By Ira Teinowitz The White House is blasting NBC News for what it contends is “deceitful editing” of correspondent Richard Engel’s interview of President

By Klaus Marre The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President