[Swordmaker]

William, check out the Truthout.org page below:

Capital Hill Blue Retracts Story

Found this just before midnite.

[metesky]

Thompson's claim to having been scammed for 20+ years rings hollow.

This stuff is what makes FreeRepublic the best political site on the web.

[William McKinley]

So they pretty much are admitting that the story was not theirs. They sold something that they did not have rights to sell, OR Thompson is not being truthful about any relationship he has with Truthout.

I don't think the latter is the case.

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.

[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]

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