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And this is press criticism how, exactly?
Oh that's right, it's not. It's boosterism for liberal political causes.
I never much cared for the Bush administration's handling of either foreign or domestic terrorists or its rather loose interpretation of the Constitution (one, which I might add, is shaping up in large measure to be shared by the Obama administration).
But this isn't the place for gloating about how right you were in your politics. It's a place to question how and why the press does what it does.
Fail.
Fail. Fail. Fail.
#1 Posted by Mike, CJR on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 04:30 PM
Boy, there are a growing number of trolls around here. It's too bad.
I'd say that highlighting well-done examples of journalism qualifies as criticism (just as film critics highlight the films they like as well as the films they do not, right?). If you read Danner's article instead of knee-jerking a reaction to it, I think you'll find it's based more on fact than on one's location along a political spectrum, and is a well-done piece of reporting (given that none of us has yet seen the Red Cross report that Danner describes).
Though perhaps I'm forgetting that reliance on facts became a partisan issue during the last eight years...
#2 Posted by anonymous, CJR on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 04:53 PM
First : CIA is a complex and big operation that has many activities including classified anti-terrorism and anti-organized crime activities allocated to operations such as CI NX FBI cooperation, DoD in USA, NSA, DoD in every ACBA country and to highly classified operations in non-policing department of Interpol HQ [outside of the Interpol Building].
2Second: CIA does not and never owned any jails. Military law enforcement owns jails.
3. Until fall of 2008 FBI had its own international intelligence program in violation of the USA Federal and International Law and that is where professor in journalism needs to concentate including support of Bush lobbysts of the terrorism finance from funds stolen from the UN food for oil program and failure of any USa program to detect WMD in Iraque until we have found those WMD wrongly labelled in the NY HQ of the DPKO UN in the civil room of inspectors - WMD, presenting neurological gaz, enough to kill all NY.
Third: FB and military were interrogating with use of those methods that are illegal anyway.
Fourth: Democrats had given illegal protection in FBI agenda to Russian FSB spy Tretyakov on tax payers money in 2000 - he had order on his arrest pending from Interpol HQ and RF Interpol for blackmailing Russian diplomats to participate in the theft of UN money and bribes to Saddam.
Information disclosed is useful as the link for professor in journalism, required significant civil uptitude and he needs to pursue that info and those links correctly. I hope my contribution will help- I was Interpol HQ Expert on intergovernmental appointment in 1989-2007/2008, was directly dealing with those issues, was positioned in 1989-1992 in Moscow and in 1992-2001 in Cyprus in charge of transnational investigations, in 2001-currently leave in Adelaide, Australia, being relocated here within classified ACBA TNT listing framework that I have since 22 January 1992. I had been in charge of chernobyl controls for UN including file of DPKO UN HQ US in 1992-2006 [files discharged] and know operational realities to which professor refers very well, USA policing also knows me well and it was NY PD that have found WMD in DPKO UN office in NY together with our TNT ACBA and Interpol HQ [at that time] liasions teams. Kind Regards. Victoria [our platforms in Australia work badly, diregard mistakes, - info is important].
Professor and anyone interested can write to me using us e-mail server : victoria_larsen@yahoo.com
#3 Posted by victoria larsen [nee` Alexandrova], CJR on Tue 17 Mar 2009 at 03:44 AM
One thing that i know about politics is hidding true story and reflecting wrong side of the picture. Victoria what ever ur position in intelligence agency, u have no right to disclose ur position and work if u r on job now. but i appreciate ur interest in this article. Bush policies are not good enough, thats y it creat a bad impact on the world. In every country of the world America became more questionable and objectionable due to defective policies and wrong decisions.
#4 Posted by farooq haider, CJR on Thu 26 Mar 2009 at 11:53 AM