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Earlier Report on Tip to Islamic "Charity"Apparently this story's been around for a little while; it just never got a lot of play. The Chicago Sun Times reported on September 12th: WASHINGTON -- A federal prosecutor is investigating whether two reporters for the New York Times were leaked information about a terror financing investigation that may have tipped off the targets of the probe, one of which was Bridgeview-based Global Relief Foundation. So, it does seem the government's main interest is in finding who leaked to Shenon, rather than if Shenon leaked to GRF. I argued with a left-wing poster about this; I was wrong. According to a staff report from the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI had intended to obtain secret surveillance warrants to monitor the reaction of the charity in the United States after its overseas offices and those of another Islamic charity, the Palos Hills-based Benevolence International Foundation, were searched Dec. 13, 2001. What annoys me is that many reporters, like Mike Wallace, say that their responsibilities as a journalist trump any responsibilities they might have as Americans-- and as human beings, for that matter. But while Jennings and his crew were traveling with a North Kosanese unit [seems to be a made-up enemy country for the hypothetical-- Ace], to visit the site of an alleged atrocity by U.S. and South Kosanese troops, they unexpectedly crossed the trail of a small group of American and South Kosanese soldiers. With Jennings in their midst the Northern soldiers set up an ambush that would let them gun down the Americans and Southerners. No kidding, huh? And yet Shenon apparently thought very little at all about divulging secret information to a group widely known to be a terrorist-funding front -- which, to be fair, he shouldn't have had in the first place, and that's the fault of the loose-lipped government official. The "Reporter's Code" won't let them tell American soldiers about an impending attack, but they don't hesitate to call up a terrorist-funding "charity" and tip them off about an ongoing secret government investigation, just to get some ridiculous comment about it. "Hey, this is Philip Shenon of the New York Times. Did you know that the government plans to freeze your assets and is scrutinizing the hell out of your right now?" "Umm, no, actually, I didn't." "Care to comment?" "Errr... got to go. I just remembered, I have some papers I need to shred." Seems to me that, in this hypothetical, Mike Wallace could have, err, similarly "called the American platoon for comment" upon the impending ambush -- as Shenon did -- but gee willickers, seems he decided against doing so. Probably because that would be making news, rather than just reporting it. This code of neutrality seems only to apply strictly to prevent any aid to fellow loyal law-abiding Americans. When it comes to enemies, foreign and domestic-- the rules suddenly get a little more relaxed. posted by Ace at 04:19 PM
CommentsOf course they're going to help the enemy. "Americans beat the bad guys" isn't a catchy story, but "Americans crushed by underdog insurgents" is a definate "man bites dog" story. Plus that kind of story reinforces the idea that it is nobel to stand up to American imperialism. Anybody opposing America, to these guys is on the side of the angels. These guys don't even call terrorists terrorists. They're insurgents or resistance etc. Anyone taking bets that somebody is going to be held accountable for this one? Posted by: Iblis on September 30, 2004 04:44 PM
That ethics exercise is mindblowing. How easily Jennings cracked under a mild rebuke from his peer. Fucking unscrupulous jackals deserve to be shredded in a giant razorwire salad and drenched in hot vinegar. Posted by: lauraw on September 30, 2004 05:18 PM
Make Wallace makes me sick. Here's the video. You have to sign up to view it, but it's free. http://www.learner.org/resources/series81.html?pop=yes&vodid=89407&pid=196# Posted by: PaulC on September 30, 2004 05:35 PM
So I guess American soldiers have absolutely no obligation to step in and prevent the killing by our enemies of reporters from our networks if the soldiers find out about it ahead of time. Sounds fair to me, though can you imagine the outrage if American GIs just watched some jihadi fucks set up an ambush for some reporter and stood there and took pictures of it without preventing it from happening? Perhaps such an event would wake up the press in American, but I seriously doubt it. Posted by: Sharkman on September 30, 2004 08:04 PM
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