[Timesink]

Located via Donald Luskin:

COVERT OPERATIVE OUTED AT NY TIMES    Glenn Halpern at the HipperCritical blog sends us word of an astonishing ethical lapse in the New York Times' ongoing campaign to throw sand in the gears of US efforts in Iraq. An op-ed today by Mark Medish argues that Iraq must honor all its debt to external creditors -- which would add considerably to the cost of post-war reconstruction. The Times identifies Medish as "a lawyer, was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury from 1997 to 2000." Halpern points out that Medish wrote a similar op-ed for the Washington Post on October 19. The Post had the integrity to identify Medish fully as "a lawyer in Washington and...a senior Treasury and National Security Council official in the Clinton administration. He represents international corporate creditors of Iraq." In other words, he's just a lobbyist. But that was news that wasn't fit to print.

Posted by Donald Luskin at 10:13 PM

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[Dan Evans]

Maybe the precedent that should be established is that if you do business with tyrants you can lose a lot of money. Then, perhaps, people will stop doing business with tyrants. And that would make this a much better world.

[Qwinn]

I really consider this a very serious journailstic issue. No one can deny how bad this is. Andrew Sullivan mentioned it on his website too. I can't believe it's gotten so little attention. This is Jason Blayr level misrepresentation.

Qwinn

[Stultis]

The Post had the integrity to identify Medish fully

Yeah, but integrity at the Compost is also a highly variable item:

David Kay rebukes Washington Post  ^
			Posted by JohnHuang2 On 11/04/2003 1:19 AM CST with 17 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | Kenneth R. Timmerman MEDIA MATTERSDavid Kay rebukes Washington PostWMD-search chief says reporter misidentified source in weapons hunt Posted: November 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2003 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The head of the CIA's Iraq Study Group that is investigating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs issued a stinging rebuke of the Washington Post on Saturday. David Kay alleged that Post reporter Barton Gellman knowingly misrepresented information he had gathered in Iraq about the hunt for Saddam's WMDs and had misidentified a key source as well as the information Kay had provided Gellman in an interview. Gellman's front-page story, which ran...

[lysie]

Excellent work...Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[GOPJ]

Shame on the New York Times.

Mark Medish is a lawyer in Washington and was a senior Treasury and National Security Council official in the Clinton administration. He represents international corporate creditors of Iraq.