That would have been OK with you since it was good investigative reporting?
I am surprised at this remark. For an old timer at FR it is apparent you posted this just to get something started. What the heck for? I would expect someone with your seniority at FR would refrain from such petty B.S.
Investigative reporting my eye! Do you consider this and putting panties on the heads of detainees torture? Why should this be reported at all? Why don't we just take all of these prisoners and put them up at the Holiday Inn? Furnish them lawyers, hand them our Constitutional Rights and be done with it. Better yet, why not just release them to kill again? After all, we can't have them getting upset, can we?
It is clear that whether or not the facts were true, NewsWeak and it's reporters were out to damage this country. I don't give a rusty what happens to prisoners that their sole purpose in life is to kill what they consider "infidels". It is impossible for me to think NewsWeak did not know this story could put Americans in danger. No one is that naive!
Are you taking a position that if this story were true, it is ok to incite violence on our troops, or just throwing around horse nuggets in order to have someone to argue with?
My position is that the story should not have been published,
whether it was true or not. The fact that the story was false only compounds Newsweek's error.
This was not a big story. On an "Atrocity" scale of 0 to 10, the events in this story are about a .002. On a "Bad Things That Can Happen To Innocents Overseas If We Publish This Story" scale of 0 to 10, this would be a 9.9999.
To blame Newsweek for shoddy journalism misses that point. It implies that if the story were true and Newsweek reported it, it would be OK that innocents died.