Heart of Darkness (another Mapes/Rather scoop based on forged video.)

New York Metro ^ | 10/25/2004 | Stacy Sullivan

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In January 2002, As U.S. Forces in Afghanistan were hunting down Al Qaeda suspects, the CBS news show 60 Minutes II got its hands on some sensational footage: seven hours’ worth of videotape showing Al Qaeda terrorists training in an Afghan camp. The source of the tapes, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema—known familiarly as Keith—was more than a little dubious. Idema claimed to be working as an adviser to the Northern Alliance, but he was also an ex-con who had served three years in federal prison for wire fraud and had a criminal record in three states. He was, in addition, a serial litigator who had once sued CBS. But the tape’s content—featuring masked men in a bullet-scarred compound training to assassinate and kidnap world leaders—proved a TV producer’s dream.

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If you read Operation Desert Fraud you will learn that it was none other than Mary Mapes who produced the bogus 60 Minutes Afghan story for Dan Rather.

They authenticated the bogus video with some British military experts. Do we detect a pattern of behavior here?

[Peach]

I saw this the other day; CBS has lost ALL credibility.

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Another thread that didn't get enough attention.

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Columbia Journalism Review Article

[SandRat]

New verb Maped. To willfully and fraudulently fabricate a story of any kind for use for your own or your friends or compatriots aggrandizement. Related to behavior in journalism first exhibited by J. Goebbels the 1930's.

[MEG33]

Heck of a story..He pulled the wool over many eyes..including the media's..They try to pull the wool over our eyes regularly,of course.

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Accuracy In Media

[Wolverine]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idema, known as “Jack”, turned up in Afghanistan as a freelance advisor to the Northern Alliance

 

US distances self from vigilante

 

US army 'took terror suspect' from vigilante group

 

Portrait of a U.S. Vigilante in Afghanistan

 

American in Afghan Abuse Probe Served Time Pride, prison shadow Idema

[MizSterious]

I missed the earlier thread. Mapes should not be able to work anywhere ever again. CBS should have its news division undergo a Fallujah-type operation to clear out all the rubbish.

[Feiny]

I had to print this out...it is a great read.

[peyton randolph]

CBS should have its news division undergo a Fallujah-type operation to clear out all the rubbish.

No one would be left to turn out the lights.

[Feiny]

You must see this one...

[nw_arizona_granny]

ping

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Thanks for the links

[perfect stranger]

I googled "Jonathan Keith Idema" and found this from "No More Mr. Nice Blog"

"Jonathan Keith Idema, the gung-ho bounty hunter and wannabe terror warrior who was recently convicted of running a torture prison in Afghanistan."

Ya learn something new everyday.