Posted on 11/02/2005 4:51:57 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
November 2, 2005 - 07:22.
Ah, Abu Ghraib! Good old days for the MSM, when for months on end they could justify displaying salacious photos, confident that every time they did, Pres. Bush took a hit.
Is there hope for Abu Ghraib redux? The Today Show is clearly doing its best to promote the notion. In its coverage of revelations in the Washington Post that the CIA maintains secret prisons around the world to confine top Al-Qaida members, Today at least twice displayed an Abu Ghraib photo. This despite the absence of any allegations that the US has engaged in any similar activities in those prisons.
An aside: if the locations of these prisons have surely been keep secret, just how secret has their existence been? Haven't we been told from the start that captured Al-Qaida are being kept at various secret locations around the world? What could those locations be other than some form of prison? Did people expect that Khalid Shaik Mohammed was being kept in Paris under an alias at the Ritz?
In a subsequent Matt Lauer interview, Jimmy Carter - on to plump his new book "Our Endangered Values" - was so quick to accuse his his own country and government that even Lauer was taken aback.
Said Carter: "The news this morning about torture around the world by Americans is going to [make a lot of news]."
To his credit, Lauer corrected the record for our Blame-America-First ex-prez:
"Well, the report as I read it this morning does not say that torture is going on but does say that there are some secret prisons being set up around the world."
"Well, the report as I read it this morning does not say that torture is going on but does say that there are some secret prisons being set up around the world."
Well then Matt, why is NBCrap's caption calling them "SECRET CIA TERROR PRISONS"? Wishful thinking I would guess.
You pretty much nailed it according to my memory of Watergate. 24/7 coverage on all 100% of TV channels (three national TV channels and 1 local), newspapers, magazines, and many radio stations. Remember folks no cable, satellite or internet in those days. You couldn't get away from it.
I got so tired of seeing John Dean I could spit and I was not a fan of Nixon.
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