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To: weegee

I don't know who actually helped coordinate the story for CBS but I was listening to G. Liddy last year and he had the creepy Hackworth on and he boasted that some soldier had sent him the photos and he sent them on to CBS so I believe that Hackworth was definitely involved in getting these photos to the press to harm President Bush and his administration.


42 posted on 01/10/2005 7:24:15 PM PST by ozzysmom
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To: ozzysmom

That was the name:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1130452/posts

(AG) Mar: SSg Frederick's uncle William sent an e-mail message to retired colonel David Hackworth's Web. The NY Times describes Hackworth as "a retired colonel and a muckraker who was always willing to take on the military establishment." That e-mail message would put Mr. Lawson in touch with the CBS News program "60 Minutes II" and help set in motion events that led to the public disclosure of the graphic photographs and an international crisis for the Bush administration. The Times reports on 8 May: (7)

The irony, Mr. Lawson said, is that the public spectacle might have been avoided if the military and the federal government had been responsive to his claims that his nephew was simply following orders. Mr. Lawson said he sent letters to 17 members of Congress about the case earlier this year, with virtually no response, and that he ultimately contacted Mr. Hackworth's Web site out of frustration, leading him to cooperate with a consultant for "60 Minutes II."

"The Army had the opportunity for this not to come out, not to be on 60 Minutes," he said. "But the Army decided to prosecute those six G.I.'s because they thought me and my family were a bunch of poor, dirt people who could not do anything about it. But unfortunately, that was not the case." (7)


44 posted on 01/10/2005 7:43:52 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: ozzysmom

There, you said it. It's the same story I heard. Hackworth.


48 posted on 01/10/2005 9:13:34 PM PST by Fred Nerks (NO TO MUSLIM IMMIGRATION. NO TO MOSQUES. NO TO IMAMS. NO TO ISLAM.)
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