Thursday, April 28, 2011

NY TImes Can't Get Its Story Straight On WikiLeaks Documents

On the latest batch of WikiLeaks documents, about the classification and fate of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, the NY Times can't seem to decide if it "obtained" the documents from WikiLeaks or from someone else. [And yes, concentration camp is what it is, since the U.S. insists the prisoners aren't "prisoners of war," and says the Geneva Conventions don't apply, meaning it isn't a POW camp, and they have no rights to a trial, which means it isn't a prison for convicted criminals, nor a jail for pre-trial detainees, as both Bush and Obama have stated they intend to keep most of them imprisoned without trial indefinitely- presumably for life- that makes it a concentration camp. Concentration camps were not a Nazi invention- the British used them to imprison Afrikaaners during the Boer War around the turn of the 20th century.]

First they grudgingly admitted they came from WikiLeaks, then the next day they said they "obtained" them from "another source." Which would have had to been from another media organization that got them from WikiLeaks. The noxious Bill Keller,the major domo of the Times, made an appearance in the news columns about it that day.

Today they're back to saying they got them from WikiLeaks. Decide, Times. Get your story straight.

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