On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Michael Dinowitz <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Read it again. This is not a NYT investigation. This is an article adapted > from a book, as they clearly say on each page: > This article is adapted from Confront and Conceal: Obamas Secret Wars and > Surprising Use of American Power, to be published by Crown on Tuesday.
...written by David Sanger, Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times. The NYT, Washington Post, Guardian, etc all draw from the work in the book. > This is not an investigative news piece but essentially a retelling of > something that someone claims in a book. I see "according to participants > in the program" and other vague mentions of sources who claim that Obama > said this and Biden said that but nothing concrete, especially in > connection to Stuxnet. We have a fact (Olympic Games) combined with a > speculation (the US/Israel is behind Stuxnet) and the author is saying that > the fact proves the speculation without providing any real proof. The book and the articles springing out of it recount direct interviews with sources who describe (and corroborate) in person meetings on the subject with the President and senior advisors. There are only two options here. Either Sanger is faithfully reporting interviews about events that really happened or else people are flat out lying and making this all up in a coordinated fashion. > Show me the sources of the quotes, especially when it comes to the claim > that America was behind Stuxnet. Isn't there transcripts of these meetings? Seriously? Ok, I give up. I don't like anonymous sources either. None the less, if you think that the senior NYT Washington correspondent is going to make up a bunch of interviews and sources, confirming an attack on Iran, and not get called out by the White House if it wasn't true...well, I just can't help you there. That is a level of denial that is largely unbridgeable. Good luck getting transcripts of situation room meetings on attacks on foreign IT systems out of the White House. I'm sure we'll all be glad to see you finally come around in 50 years. Ju ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352403 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
