Emails show Washington Post reporter coordinated attorney firing story with White House

Emails show Washington Post reporter coordinated attorney firing story with White House

By Muriel Kane

Published: August 11, 2009

When a scandal involving the Bush administration’s firing of US Attorneys broke in early 2007, initial coverage by the Washington Post supported the idea that the firings had been politically motivated. That approach, however, quickly changed to one that was far more friendly to the White House.

The House Judiciary Committee has now released over 5400 pages of Bush administration and Republican Party emails (pdf) http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/WHDocsPT10.pdf related to the firings. Several of these emails suggest coordination between Post reporter John Solomon and Bush administration officials on how to manage the Post’s coverage of the widening scandal.

In one email to a Department of Justice spokesperson, ]b\Solomon even appears to be suggesting what spin to apply in order to minimize damage from the revelations.

“Thanks for any help you can give on this,” Solomon wrote to Brian Roehrkasse on the morning of March 2, 2007. “I think some tick tock along these lines will bring some perspective to how the process occurred. Of course, the White House counsel’s office had to sign off. Of course an administration in its last two years looks for some fresh blood to inject into jobs. Of course, DOJ’s analysis of prosecutors goes beyond performance evaluations to achievements or failures on policy issues like immigration. I think we can get this just right with your help.”

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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/11/emails-show-washington-post-reporter-coordinated-attorney-firing-story-with-white-house/

maybe all of this RW "town hall" stuff is coming at the right time for this REAL NEWS - puts the proper context around it don't you think?

liberal media my *ss

the "reporter" left the Post last December to become - :::: DRUM ROLL, PLEASE ::::::

Executive Editor of the Washington Times.

The right-wing Moonie-owned rag.

Pig............................

No more though...cause the guy in the WH is not a friend of the media's. He wants to raise corporate taxes and they'd rather he didn't.

But the media is definitely harder on him as a whole than they were on Bush.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002121.php

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Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has been a favorite target of Solomon's this past year. In February, Solomon wrote a story pulling the senior Democrat into the Abramoff mess. The piece repeatedly mentioned that an Abramoff associate lobbying Reid. Yet he did not mention that Reid voted against the measure Abramoff's team was pushing.

In May he hit Reid again, this time for accepting passes to a boxing match from the Nevada Gaming Commission. That story -- riddled by key omissions like Solomon's referring to Reid's free passes to the match as "tickets" (which have a face value) -- and its follow-up kept me busy for a week.

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