June 25, 2004
NYT: OH, THOSE LINKS!
The New York Times is a large news organization and I imagine
that there are some blind spots when it comes to knowing who knows what
at all times. Still, the paper's sheer mendacity when it comes to its
editorial page is a little stunning. An editorial
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/opinion/17THU1.html?ex=14028048
00&en=0b45e48ca117bd37&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">a week ago slams
President Bush for falsely asserting links between Iraq and al Qaeda.
It beings thusly:
It's hard to imagine how the commission investigating
the 2001 terrorist attacks could have put it more clearly yesterday:
there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda,
between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11.
Pretty unambiguous stuff. Eight days later, the Times runs this
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/politics/25TERR.html?hp">news
story:
Contacts between Iraqi intelligence agents and Osama
bin Laden when he was in Sudan in the mid-1990's were part of a broad
effort by Baghdad to work with organizations opposing the Saudi ruling
family, according to a newly disclosed document obtained by the
Americans in Iraq.
Startling that these documents came to light just days after the
Times denounced Bush as a liar and fabricator. Maybe they'll
issue a retraction. Wait, this is interesting:
The new document, which appears to have circulated only
since April, was provided to The New York Times several weeks ago,
before the commission's report was released. Since obtaining the
document, The Times has interviewed several military, intelligence and
United States government officials in Washington and Baghdad to
determine that the government considered it authentic.
So the Times had documents detailing a link between Iraq and
Osama bin Laden that they had authenticated, but still went ahead and
printed that first quote above? There's a lot of hemming and hawing
and hedging in today's piece in an effort to minimize this revelation,
but the Times is working pretty hard to establish itself as the
least credible newsgathering organization and opinion purveyor in the
land. Tagged:
Posted by Lexiphane at June 25, 2004 5:00 PM
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