Susie Kneedler wasn't able to post the comment below, probably because I've banned so many people today good people got caught in the harrow. Sorry. It's an important comment because it gets at a truth we all knew back when good David Kelly killed himself after valiantly trying to get the BBC to report the truth. Of course the intelligence was getting sexed up. Kneedler:
Robert Fisk wrote a great essay last week on the BBC crumbling before lobby pressure:
What I haven't seen is anyone discussing how the BBC disintegration began. The BBC fired or "allowed to resign" its heads, Chairman Gavyn Davies and Director General Greg Dyke, after Andrew Gilligan's [true] report that the Blair government "sexed up" the evidence of WMD in Iraq. Gilligan was smeared by an inquisition--commonly called a "whitewash"--led by Lord Hutton. British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly was outed by Blair as Gilligan's source; Kelley soon committed suicide amid the Blairite condemnation.
But last month, "The Independent" and others reported that "Secret Emails Show Iraq Dossier Was 'Sexed Up'"
So the Bush-Blair cover-up not only worked: it took down BBC journalistic integrity in the process. Has anyone put the facts together to chronicle the end of a once-admirable news service? We need press integrity--which takes guts. Fisk has it, loads of other observers have it. Now we need a voice in TV: how about it, MSNBC?
fanatical neo con types have worked hard to do away with public broadcasting.. whether it be the bbc, or the cbc here in canada, they have cut back funding and tried to shut these public institutions down as they are considered too liberal and open minded about many issues that conflict directly with these same neo con warmongers.. electing less far right gov'ts, and doing away with news outlets that are nothing more then propaganda is the only solution..
Interesting doc on Press TV, called 'Chasing Curveball'. Curveball was the codename for an Iraqi defector who provided the CIA with 100 % bogus information on the non-existent mobile chem/bact factories. Fascinating.
A major part of the disinformation is that the disinformation is about key issues. Scott Ritter's report was available when the frenzy started and what it teaches you is that there is a huge difference between being techically in violation of the demands and posing an actual threat. Military analysts wouldn't confuse those. In practice the possibility of technical violation was constantly being mixed with looming danger. The main value of finding proof of technical violations was to validate the fig leaf for everyone who supported the war. So when politicians and told afterwards that they had been misled they forgot to say that the proof was only ment for the figleaf.
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Isn't it about time somebody in the MSM does a detailed piece about the Office Of Special Plans? We go after 90 year old guys who were teen temp guards in some camp in Poland, but we can't touch this OSP?