Today I sent this letter by U.S. Mail to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, who will soon be hosted by former U.S. Senator David Boren, mentor and patron of George Tenet.
September 28, 2005 Bob Woodward C/O The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20071 Dear Mr. Woodward: The local newspapers are reporting that soon you will be hosted by Mr. Boren for a visit to the University of Oklahoma. I live in Norman, am an OU graduate, and have carefully observed Boren’s (…)
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9/11 Suspect David Boren to Host Bob Woodward of Washington Post
28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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U.S. immigration officials refused to allow Robert Fisk to board a plane from Toronto to Denver
25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsLannan speaker delayed in Canada
U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.
According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.
Davis made last-minute (…) -
Bush criticism is widely reported
6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsFierce criticism of President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina dominates Tuesday’s papers, amid reports of ongoing suffering among storm victims.
The Daily Mirror condemns the response as amazingly inadequate, pointing out that the richest country on Earth needs aid from poorer nations.
And the Guardian says many evacuees at a Louisiana church centre visited by Mr Bush were unimpressed by the president.
Meanwhile, the Sun likens New Orleans to a medieval wasteland.
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The Guardian and the de Menezes killing
22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
New leaks from official sources in Britain have added to the evidence already brought to light, proving that the official story of how Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down was a pack of lies. In response, the liberal daily newspaper the Guardian has rushed to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, justifying the use of death squads and excusing a cover-up aimed at concealing how the police murdered an innocent man.
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Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsJudy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
by Arianna Huffington
Not everyone in the Times building is on the same page when it comes to Judy Miller. The official story the paper is sticking to is that Miller is a heroic martyr, sacrificing her freedom in the name of journalistic integrity.
But a very different scenario is being floated in the halls. Here it is: It’s July 6, 2003, and Joe Wilson’s now famous op-ed piece appears in the Times, raising the idea that the Bush (…) -
Former Intelligence Officers De-Spin Rightwing Assault on Valerie Wilson
21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
One of the pieces of disinformation being peddled by the Save-Rove gang (see the item below) is that Valerie Wilson wasn’t really undercover. So the leak? No harm done and no crime committed (since the relevant law says a leak only counts as a crime if the exposed officer was working under cover). But how do they know that Joseph Wilson’s wife wasn’t a clandestine officer in a serious manner? Well, they don’t. There’s nothing on the public record that fully explains her duties at the CIA. (…)
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When News Isn’t News
19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsI hope this is not too Inside Baseball for you, but I am truly hacked with what the bloggers call the MSM, or “mainstream media.” The New York Times and The Washington Post have both gone way out of their way to deny that the Downing Street Memos (it’s now plural) are news.
Let me tell you something. Like many of you, during the entire lead-up to the war with Iraq, I thought the whole thing was a terrible idea. I bring this up not to prove how smart we are, but to emphasize that I followed (…) -
R. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsR. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
Not published in The New York Times
by Greg Palast
Judy, Karl Rove ain’t no "source." A confidential source — and I’ve worked with many — is an insider ready to put himself on the line to blow the whistle on an official lie or hidden danger. I would protect a source’s name with my life and fortune as would any journalist who’s not a craven jerk (the Managing Editor of Time Magazine comes to mind).
But the weasel who (…) -
The Big Lie About Valerie Plame
13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentshttp://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7...
The Big Lie About Valerie Plame
By: Larry Johnson
From: TPMCafe Special Guests
Jul 13, 2005
The misinformation being spread in the media about the Plame affair is alarming and damaging to the longterm security interests of the United States. Republicans’ talking points are trying to savage Joe Wilson and, by implication, his wife, Valerie Plame as liars. That is the truly big lie.
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White House Won’t Comment on Rove, Leak
12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentJul 11, 10:13 PM (ET) By PETE YOST
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer’s identity and that whoever did would be fired.
But Bush spokesman Scott McClellan wouldn’t repeat those claims Monday in the face of Rove’s own lawyer, Robert Luskin, acknowledging the political operative spoke to Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, one of the (…)