On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> You'd think they would have learned by now:
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07pubed.html?
> _r=1&ref=opinion>

and this by Greenwald speaking :What the New Jim Comey Torture Emails  
Actually Reveal
by Glenn Greenwald


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/07


> "WHEN former Vice President Dick Cheney assailed President Obama’s
> plan to close the prison at Guantánamo last month, he used ammunition
> plucked right from that morning’s Times. The top front-page headline
> that day, May 21, read: '1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon
> Finds.'”
>
> "But the article on which he based that statement was seriously flawed
> and greatly overplayed. It demonstrated again the dangers when editors
> run with exclusive leaked material in politically charged
> circumstances and fail to push back skeptically. The lapse is
> especially unfortunate at The Times, given its history in covering the
> run-up to the Iraq war."
>
> --
> It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost
> our way.
> -Rollo May
>
>
>
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