It is getting better. Check this out [Truthout trying to hide stealing a fraudulent article]

[William McKinley]

I am having a back and forth with Japan Today regarding their publishing of an article which appeared in Capitol Hill Blue that has subsequently been exposed to be false.

Japan Today did not get the article from Capitol Hill Blue though. They got it from Truthout.org, a leftist propaganda outfit.

I wanted to see if Truthout.org even had the story up on their site. I went to their main page, Truthout.org and checked. Nothing. I noticed a search box up at the top. So I took a phrase from the original article, sought significant quantities and hit search.

Bingo.

Here is what the resulting page looked like:

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Search results for 'sought and significant and quantities'
Refine search:

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Documents 1 - 10 of 18 matches. More 's indicate a better match.

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t r u t h o u t - Iraq Attacks Wound Seven U.S. Soldiers

... threat posed by Saddam in the run-up to the war. And the White House acknowledged Bush was incorrect when he said in January that Iraq recently had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903D.shtml 07/08/03, 11552 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Robert Scheer | A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Truth: They Lied

... uranium connection as a major justification for rushing the nation to war: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa." What the president did not say was that the British were relying on their intelligence white paper ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903C.shtml 07/08/03, 12192 bytes

t r u t h o u t - White House Admits Lying About Iraq Nukes

... weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush lied in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.   The acknowledgment came as a British parliamentary commission questioned the reliability of ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903A.shtml 07/08/03, 24043 bytes

t r u t h o u t - US Ambassador: 'Nuclear Report Ignored' By Administration

... .   Bush, in his State of the Union speech on Jan. 23, declared that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."   After Bush's speech, Wilson said he contacted the State Department, noted that the ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070803E.shtml 07/07/03, 15966 bytes

t r u t h o u t - The Selling of the Iraq War

... choice about the most important question a nation faces: whether or not to go to war. That is exactly what the Bush administration did when it sought to convince the public and Congress that the United States should go to war with Iraq.     From late August 2002 to mid-March of this year ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070703A.shtml 07/06/03, 55335 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Diplomat: British Ministers Knew Evidence was Forged

... office of the Vice-President, Dick Cheney.   During eight days in Niger he discovered it was impossible for Iraq to have been buying the quantities of uranium alleged. "My report was very unequivocal," he said. He also learnt that the signatures of officials vital to any transaction ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070103B.shtml 06/30/03, 12799 bytes

t r u t h o u t - 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq

... to the occasional lie of expediency but, in fact, almost never told the truth.     What follows are just the most outrageous and significant of the dozens of outright lies uttered by Bush and his top officials over the past year in what amounts to a systematic campaign to scare the bejeezus ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062903G.shtml 06/28/03, 16884 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Serious Questions for Tony Blair

... was attempting to build nuclear weapons that could pose a threat to the West.   The Government has stood by reports that Iraq "sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa". British officials say the intelligence was based on multiple sources, despite the IAEA ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062703G.shtml 06/26/03, 13840 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Byrd: 'The Road to Coverup is the Road to Ruin'

... the President who appears to me to be intent on revising history. There is an abundance of clear and unmistakable evidence that the Administration sought to portray Iraq as a direct and deadly threat to the American people. But there is a great difference between the hand-picked intelligence that was ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062503A.shtml 06/24/03, 22919 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Rep. Waxman | Forged Iraq WMD Evidence

... on This Week, you repeated this statement, claiming that you made multiple inquiries of the intelligence agencies regarding the allegation that Iraq sought to obtain uranium from an African country. You stated:   George, somebody, somebody down may have known. But I will tell you that when ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/061303B.shtml 06/13/03, 19626 bytes

Notice that the third result is a match for Doug Thompson's article.

But wait, there's more.

I click on it- and what do I find? It now goes to a completely different article, from the Washington Post. In other words, they had it up, and they took it down to make it look like they didn't have it.

Unfortunately for them, their search engine's cache still has it. At least for the time being. Others should replicate what I have done here for verification. I am sure they will be 'fixing' this slip up hastily.

[William McKinley]

Who knew!

[hellinahandcart]

That's Will Pitt? Gosh he looks like Scott Ritter...hmm...

Mr. Pitt is a political analyst for the Institute for Public Accuracy

I did not know this. They arranged and funded trips to Iraq for Scott Ritter AND, if I'm not mistaken, Sean Penn.

Dang .. if veterans are allowing this creep and Scott Ritter around 'em, what are they thinking???

Veterans for Peace are, um, special veterans. The kind that march and speak at ANSWER rallies.

[hellinahandcart]

Looking at that picture, I am wondering if Pitt's original surname was Ritter.

[Joe Brower]

FYI.

[Nora]

I checked Blogdex for their tracking of the CHB story. Granted it is only a partial list of the blogs that have picked it up, but worth tracking nonetheless. I did follow the Buzzflash and discovered that if you don't already know the story, the hook up back to CHB leaves you totally in the dark about how wrong it was - just reading the newly sanitized version you miss the fraud.

[Sabertooth]

The circle is complete, without relying on the profile of the person who showed up on CHB.

Yeah, I saw some stuff last night at the truthout site that convinced me. WRP ain't just a lefty, he's a humorless lefty idiot (humorlessness being the worst offense). What bucket of bile, yikes.

[hellinahandcart]

WRP ain't just a lefty, he's a humorless lefty idiot who, by birth or design, looks exactly like Scott Ritter.

I am so totally creeped out now.

[Sabertooth]

Let's just post that here, and keep it from going down the memory hole...

  Editor's Note | Yesterday, truthout's lead story carried an article by Capitol Hill Blue that quoted a 'CIA insider.' This insider, a Terrance J. Wilkinson, was reportedly present at two briefings when Bush was informed of, and then dismissed, evidence that his Iraq WMD claims were false. Capitol Hill Blue has run a retraction of that story, which we have printed below. According to Doug Thompson, author of the original story, Terrance J. Wilkinson does not exist, and Thompson has been getting scammed for over 20 years. Something about this story is decidedly strange, but in light of Thompson's retraction, we would be remiss not to run it. I am running down my contacts at CIA and Capitol Hill Blue to find out how all of this took place. We will let you know when we know. - wrp
Capital Hill Blue Retracts Story
truthout.org - July 9th, 2003

[aSkeptic]

Good work sir!

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the info! I am creeped out as well! This whole deal smells! The more I read the apology from Thompson, the more it doesn't pass the smell test either!

Used to think the press was lazy, but they are just plain dishonest with all their anonymous sources and misleading headlines and stories.

[Sir Gawain]

William Pitt also registered here but was banned at some point. I think he also posts at SmirkingChimp.com (if that site still exists).

[axel f]

Thanks for all of your work on this matter! I love this website! Freepers are amazing.

[mhking]

And if I was Thompson, I would be suing the hell out of Truthout, and trying really hard to find out if this Terrance J. Wilkinson pretender has any connections to Truthout.

Bingo.

My opinion of Thompson had gone up with the admission yesterday. Now more question marks are showing up...

Curiouser and curoiser this thing becomes...

[bvw]

"I am running down my contacts at CIA and Capitol Hill."

"My Contacts": What does it feel like to be a contact possessed by William Rivers Pitt?

[amused]

TLBSHOW is no longer with us in freeperland.

Didn't know that...oh well

[Dont Mention the War]

I feel the need to point out that truthout.org routinely (as in almost every single day) republishes Washington Post and Los Angeles Times articles IN THEIR ENTIRETY, yet neither newspaper seems even slightly interested in initiating legal action against truthout.org.

Gee, I wonder why.

[amused]

Let's be realistic, huge contributions to DU normally have a Lincoln on the bill.

LOL.....you definitely have a wicked sense of humor.

[mhking]

Gee, I wonder why.

Kissing cousins rarely get upset with each other...

[justshe]

Please add me to your ping list re: this story. Thanks!

[Dont Mention the War]

Also, truthout.org routinely hits up its readers for both general donations and contributions to its "legal defense fund" (I can't tell exactly what it is they're trying to fight, since they're so vague about the "fund's" purpose, but it sounds like they've had their domain blocked by some ISPs for spamming). Here are two example emails.

First, the "legal defense fund" email:

Monday 23 May 2003 [Ed. Note: The moron got the date wrong. It was sent on June 23.]

TO Fund-Raiser / Legal Defense

This fund-raiser is about our normal budget and additionally putting together a TO legal defense fund. As many of you may know we are battling with a number of large Internet Service Providers who are refusing to deliver the TO daily edition to the subscribers. We have retained a first amendment attorney and we need a legal fund. For those of you who can consider helping out please do so.

We have no banner ads, we have no pop-up windows, we have no commercial sponsors. TO is supported 100% by our readers. That's annoying -- but it's good, because that's who we answer to. For better or for worse our survival is dependent upon the public we serve. This fund-raiser will provide a war chest for the next 30 days -- let's get it off to a good start!

Please consider our monthly support plans. One low payment per month is easier on your pocket and provides us a budget we can plan around.

Just use this link to our Secure Server: https://www.truthout.org/[likei'mgivingthemalink].htm

(t r u t h o u t is a non-profit independent news source. Your contributions are completely Tax Deductible.)

FOR LOW INCOME READERS: Don't send cash just help by spreading the word!

REMINDER: The TO service is FREE to all. Donations are strictly voluntary. If you stop receiving the TO Newsletter please notify us at once.

Or if you prefer to donate by check :
Make payable to : truthout
P.O. Box xxxxx
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To donate by Phone : (213) xxx-xxxx

Thank you!

Marc Ash
Executive Director | t r u t h o u t

Now, a regular fundraising letter:

Tuesday 27 May 2003

May-June Help Fund TO!

It's time to begin putting together our budget for the upcoming month. TO's presence in the media arena has become a constant thorn in the side of the FOX-CNN-MSNBC public relations machine. [Ed. Note: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!] We are going to stay in the fight. We could use your help.

As many of you know we have no banner ads, we have no pop windows, we have no commercial sponsors. TO is supported 100% by our readers. That's annoying -- but it's good, because that's who we answer to. For better or for worse our survival is dependent on the public we serve. This fund-raiser will provide a war chest for the next 30 days -- let's get it off to a good start!

Please consider our monthly support plans. One low payment per month is easier on your pocket and provides us a budget we can plan around.

Just use this link to our Secure Server: https://www.truthout.org/[notachance].htm

(t r u t h o u t is a non-profit independent news source. Your contributions are completely Tax Deductible.)

FOR LOW INCOME READERS: Don't send cash just help by spreading the word!

REMINDER: The TO service is FREE to all. Donations are strictly voluntary. If you stop receiving the TO Newsletter please notify us at once.

Or if you prefer to donate by check :
Make payable to : truthout
P.O. Box xxxxx
Sherman Oaks, CA xxxxx-xxxx

To donate by Phone : (213) xxx-xxxx

Thank you!

Marc Ash
Executive Director | t r u t h o u t