Italian Journalist: U.S. Lied (CBS 60 Minutes to air interview with Communist Giuliana Sgrena)

CBS 60 Minutes ^ | 4/13/05 | Scott Pelley

[muawiyah]

Can we get a team of CBS "newsies" out there guarding a checkpoint?

[Perdogg]

Another "60-Minutes" hit piece on Bush, I am shocked.

[fiftymegaton]

Looks like the left front tire is flat. Hmmm....why would they have to shoot out the tires?

[Mad Mammoth]

Giuliana Sgrena lives to tell the tale...

And Karl Rove (the evil One who MUST be behind all of these nefarious plots) looks into the camera and says:

"Lost ANOTHER one to DIE-tech!"

[Lancey Howard]

What the...????

Calipari led her to his car and they, along with another Italian intelligence agent, headed for the Baghdad airport.

This is the first reference that I have heard to another Italian intelligence agent. Who is he? What's his name, and what's his story?

[FenianOfEire]

I had the misfortune of seeing this piece on 60 minutes... She is in the oft-occurring trap of hindsight 20-20, which by all intents and purposes is a fallacious argument... Given the circumstances, and the lack of credible evidence to back up her PTSD/incoherent ramblings, I'm surprised she isn't remembered in the same vein of hindsight...

[rushfreedom]

I read the article on the CBS web site and no where does it give her political background. Her anti war position.

And it does not say the ransom money would go to kill Americans.

This was a huge hit piece. What do they teach these reports in school?

[JesseJane]

CNN WHITEWASHING GUILIANA SGRENA

Posted on 03/08/2005 5:50:38 AM PST by conservativecorner

Over the weekend, I caught CNN removing a damning quote from a story about Italian Communist journalist Guiliana Sgrena, recently released from some form of captivity in Iraq for a reported $6 million ransom, about why she was in Iraq in the first place. She was there, in her own words, to agitate against America and the war--

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