Disinfo Campain Follow-up (Was: Envoy's letter in Times is revealed as a forgery)

The Washington Times ^ | 7/16/03 | Nicholas Kralev

[jriemer]

A letter to the editor of The Washington Times, purported to be from a senior U.S. diplomat with scathing criticism of the Foreign Service for lack of loyalty to the Bush administration, was exposed yesterday as a forgery.

Wesley Pruden, the editor in chief of The Times, said the newspaper learned "from the highest level at the State Department" that the letter was a hoax and the newspaper fully accepts "as true that the ambassador was not the author of this letter."

[shamusotoole]

"Trouble is, everything in the letter is TRUE!!! "

Whoever did this was sophisticated enough to know that if you destroy ethos, then both pathos and logos are destroyed as well.

[jriemer]

Whoever did this was sophisticated enough to know that if you destroy ethos, then both pathos and logos are destroyed as well.

Is that a very sophsticated way of saying "they're undermining trust"? Take it down a notch for us uneducated rubes out here in the hinterlands...

[talleyman]

Bump

[VRWC_minion]

someone didn't vet this email and the paper got stung

Or he did write it, got cold feet and the Times agreed to cover for him.