BRAD BLOG: WaPo Buries Sunday's Page 1 'Iraq Intel' Article on Page 26!

Washington Post Buries Page 1 Sunday Story on Iraq Intel Doubts to Page 26!
Original Headline Softened as Story Quietly Moved Overnight!
Incident Adds Yet More Questions About WaPo's Timid Coverage of News Critical to Bush Administration.

A Washington Post article exposing the specific details of several pre-war doubts by Bush Administration aides and anlaysts in the lead-up to war ran on page A1 in the early Saturday editions of WaPo's Sunday paper. By Sunday morning, however, the story had its headlined softened and was subsequently buried on page A26...

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and his own Army intell 'asset' status see bio at
http://www.wcsj2004.com/bios/Pincus.html

and as a CIA asset at
www.nndb.com/people/233/000044101/

The Washington Times (a Moonie publication) on 31 July 1996 described Pincus by saying that "some in the agency refer to as 'the CIA's house reporter.'"

"He served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, stationed in Washington, from 1955-1957."

So what? This is proof of nothing! And quoting the "Moonie Times" for proof of anything???

"The Washington Times (a Moonie publication) on 31 July 1996 described Pincus by saying that "some in the agency refer to as 'the CIA's house reporter.'"

I would venture to guess that the CIA does indeed trust Pincus and would use him to help get their side of the story out. What is wrong with that?

I have seen Pincus on C-Span and read his articles in the Washington Post. He appears to be a fine investigative reporter not afraid to speak the truth. We need more like him.

as a company tool. What's wrong with a 'company' bias ? I'll let you ponder that by yourself.

"So what" ? C'mon man, use yer noggin, KKKarl Rove could just be feeding B.S. here. And pre-war, what was the CIAs stance and the reporting of Pincus ? Cheerleading ?

Maybe this can be forwarded to those appearing tom before a few members of congress. Conyers and a few others are holding a hearing w/Franken, Rhodes, Americablog, Brock, and others...

This is a good example of what they will be discussing.

on-line Foreign News section as the 10th item, right above a story about the discovery of a new species of African monkey.

Pathetic.:eyes:

its not like it was a high crime and misdemeanor or anything, nothing serious like an oval office pipe smooching, just 100,000 dead arabs and 1600 dead americans and a whole mess of wrecked humans who didn't manage to die.

And that's a hangin' offense. Off with his head!

:+ :hug: :blush:

spent with no end in sight. Mismanagement and zero oversight.
They are looting the treasury and no one is minding the store.

What about the small fact that only CONGRESS can declare War?
What about the small fact that it is CONGRESS' duty to manage the purse strings?

:rant: It will be brief. They are not a news organization, they are a collection of overpaid children of privilege (whether they started out that way or not, they are now...and I do mean "children"). The purpose of these dilettantes is to keep the waters smooth for the administration and keep the larger WaPost corporate interests in tact. This is a far cry from the paper that pursued Watergate. This is a far cry from the paper that rose to content with the NYT in the '70's as the best paper in America.

Can you imagine the WaPost doing Watergate journalism today? Can you imagine the NYT publishing the Pentagon Papers today? I didn't think so.

Done.

A Few thoughts about Deep Throat
by Bob Harris

http://www.bvalphaserver.com/postt26765.html

(btw, they've messed with the original URL from sonoma metro on this for those of you conspiracy buffs ... they really aren't playing around).

Woodward's background as a Naval Intell officer, read Secret Agenda by Jim Hougan, should convince you that Woodward is a Bush hagiographer. Woodward bio: www.webcom.com/ctka/pr196-woodward.html

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.03.97/scoop-9727.html
original source re Sen. Robert F. Bennett and Mullen and co.

I sacrificed the pure truth for a rhetorical device. I am glad they went after Nixon but, I agree, there was a "management" agenda based on the belief that it was time for Nixon to go. They didn't get exactly what they wanted since Ford failed to exercise his right wing zaniness (look at his cabinet) and then Carter snuck in. This time, it is time for Bush to go. Someone other than the WaPost will do it. They're in too deep to lead the charge. It may not even be a paper that does the job this time. Bush isn't the only one familiar with PR. Maybe Powell will come out and tell us Bush speaks in tongues.

What a trip!

Naval Weapons Center, with a secret resume I never knew about until he was gone. His last projects were with those 'drones' unmanned flights etc. He invented strong parachutes with Kevlar and drogue chutes with switchbacks and Velcro in order to prevent fire hazards of all things and shock, or possible destruction of the chute on deployment. He also invented missile launch systems for Polaris and Trident submarines (which he isn't mentioned at all about in the book Blind Man's Bluff-- I'm pissed-- credit where credit is due, he allowed for MAD mutual assured destruction with that one !).

Anyway, the Navy was probably after Nixon and Dr. K after that treaty that limited US nuclear subs, that was in the SALT negotiations; also, the Huston Plan, which is essentially what we've got now with FEMA, was all about martial law and internal military policing. Plus the money that was (obviously) CIA money coming BACK in from Chile, via a Mexican bank--see early footnotes in All The President's Men My, how times have changed ! NOT ! Renata Adler's piece in the Dec 1976 Atlantic Monthly spelled it out--foreign sourced financing of US elections, and CIA didn't want that coming out either. With (now Sen.) Robert F. Bennett and the CIA, controlling the story with Woodward was a piece of cake.

Autorank, you nailed it. The usual suck ups in the press are all old timers and all too compromised. I saw the article by Paul Craig Roberts the other day and linked here

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi

That, and articles coming out about Task Force 121, a 'secret army' with no accountability--as during the Reagan years and 'black budgets', lead me to believe that the CIA, DIA, you name it, truly DOES want to get us out of the messes we are in. But the mouthpieces can't be tied to the past CIA 'mighty Wurlitzer'. They are soooooo discredited.

Put Ray McGovern and Patrick Lang back in to do an investigation maybe with Congressional support. We may have to wait until '06 elections to do this.

BTW, one more vote and we can get this to the greatest page.

Back in the 60's, I spend a weekend in China Lake, CA. I was on my HS debate team (we were the best in CA) and we had the big tournament at a place none of us had ever heard of, China Lake. It was a trip. They put us in a barracks, which we immediately took advantage of by pulling pranks. Then we were at the HS. Nice people. When we left, I never heard of it again until a plane went down near there, in the 80's I think, and they cordoned off about 2500 square miles to find the debris.

Thanks for this information, it fills in the gaps. I would love to see those two guys do an investigation.

:thumbsup:

That explains why he refused spend 15 seconds talking about it on his hour long MTP appearance.

Oh those media meanies!!! It's not fair how they wont say what our Top Dems wont say!!!!

Everytime Hillary, Dean or Kerry tries to speak up against the memo, the media censors them or bans them from their shows!!!!

What shall we ever do. How shall we EVER get our talking points out since the Republicans wont tell the media they own to do it for us?????

Oh how long must we suffer this censorship????

Told them they needed to fire dissenters so they can present a unified front if they want to become an effective propaganda tool for Karl Rove like Fox News.

JesseLee at Stakeholder has more on this:

http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/002842.html



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sent 'em 1 email praising 'em for finally growing some balls, then had to send another one five minutes later telling them that I take all that back. What a bunch of pusses

courtesy of Howard Kurtz, the paper's media critic, during his weekly "Media Backtalk" Monday online chat with readers... I'm not saying I agree with it, but here it is....




Ordinarily, Howard's quite good, but in this case, methinks he's being a tad evasive. You can see all of his chat here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/05/19/DI2005051900805.html

in which he also discusses Newsweek/Qur'an, Rush, O'Reilly, and a whole bunch of other tasty subjects.

:wtf:

This was not news on Saturday?

I did not see the "final" Sunday edition, what was was so important to bump Pincus' article?

Keep up the good fight.

He wrote an article a couple weeks ago that was similarly buried, but the SF Chronicle featured it on page 1.

This goes to show there are a few good reporters, and fewer good editors.