[antimedia] antimedia: There's precedent for this....

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Posted by antimedia:
There's precedent for this....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1146542572.shtml


   ....from many years ago. A famous New York Times writer [1]fabricated
   stories about the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work.
   It's just possible that Dana Priest [2]did the same with her story on
   the secret CIA prisons in Europe.
   It now appears that those prisons may never have existed.

     Washington Post reporter Dana Priest won a Pulitzer Prize for a
     story about CIA "secret prisons" in Europe that cannot be confirmed
     and appears to be essentially false. This puts the paper in a very
     difficult position. It gave back one Pulitzer, a story about a
     child heroin addict by Janet Cooke, after it was exposed as a
     fraud. So far, the only evidence that the Priest story is true is
     her insistence that her secret sources were telling the truth. But
     Priest isn't talking about the nature of those "sources" and
     whether fired CIA officer and John Kerry campaign contributor Mary
     O. McCarthy was one of them.
     On April 27, during an on-line discussion, Priest said she was
     doubtful that any evidence proving the existence of the "secret
     prisons" would come from the European investigators looking into
     the controversy. "I will be very surprised if the EU [European
     Union] commissions find evidence of the prisons," she said. She
     made the comments in response to a question about returning the
     Pulitzer "until the truth is finally determined."

   In fact, I've read that it's possible the story was planted
   specifically to entrap Mary McCarthy and out her as the source of
   leaked classified material.

References

   1. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/791vwuaz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
   2. http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4534_0_3_0_C/