http://www.aim.org/special_report/4557_0_8_0_C/
Post Reporter Dana Priest's Troubling Connections
By Jennifer Verner | May 9, 2006
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In the world where the left-wing media and the press meet, it's apparently enough to make charges without evidence. Such was the case with a well-publicized December 5, 2005 letter of support to Senator John McCain, promoting his amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill "reinforcing the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by all U.S. personnel around the world." The implication, without evidence, was that the torture allegations being recklessly thrown around at U.S. soldiers were all true.
Among the 33 who signed the document were Richard Clarke, a close partner of Mary O. McCarthy in the Clinton Administration's NSA; Melvin Goodman, CIP's senior fellow; Ray McGovern, a close working ally of Goodman who has written for publications associated with conspiracy theorist and former Marxist Lyndon LaRouche; and Larry Johnson, a long-time friend and defender of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. (Careful media observers will also note that McGovern and Johnson were the mainstream media's "go to" experts on the CIA in the wake of the Mary McCarthy firing.)
All of this has been accomplished without any major media scrutiny. Consider, however, that when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth came forward with damning, factual allegations against John Kerry, questioning his anti-war activity and dubious claims about alleged U.S. atrocities in the Vietnam War, the New York Times produced a front-page story that included an elaborate chart supposedly "connecting the dots" of a Bush-friendly anti-Kerry conspiracy. Yet not a single mainstream media outlet has examined the documented histories and hard connections of money and political interest shared by Dana Priest, William Goodfellow, Mary McCarthy, Joe Wilson, Fenton Communications, Melvin Goodman and other vocal enemies of the Bush Administration. These relationships cannot be chalked up to random "inside the beltway" webs of acquaintance. They pose obvious and deeply troubling questions for anyone who values a free and independent press. The evidence suggests that Priest is part of a Democratic Party influence operation designed not only to politically damage the Bush Administration but to subvert U.S. foreign policy.
We are and have to continue to be the Minute FReepers on alert, seeking, hunting, finding the links, and uncovering the truth.
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