Islamic Leaders Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda (NY Times Treason Alert)

NY Times ^ | January 02, 2006 | DAVID S. CLOUD and JEFF GERTH

[twntaipan]

Islamic Leaders NY Slimes Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda Terrorists Everywhere

[WilliamofCarmichael]

But the company [Iraqex] soon shifted to information warfare and psychological operations, two former employees said.

Guilty of information warfare and psychological operations during wartime!

"We [the U.S.] need an even playing field, but cannot fight with both hands tied behind our backs." A quote from Michael Rubin, a Middle East scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Off with their hands! cry the Leninist agitators.

[wildcatf4f3]

i hope someone pops these pukes

[McGavin999]

Not only that but they are going to get a lot of Sunni clerics killed.

[McGavin999]

The motivation is to get the administration to back off on the investigation of the leak. They think they can keep causing damage until they back off. It's not going to work. They are just adding fuel to the fire.

[Uncle Miltie]

Is there nothing the NYT won't print?

Treasonous bastards.

[Echo Talon]

NY TIMES Go AWAY!

[righttackle44]

Let's see. What was Radio Free Europe?

It was and is a U.S.-funded broadcasting system overseas that
put out pro-American information.

The Times has many standards, all of them apparently anti-American.

[coconutt2000]

The more the old gray whore's stock goes down the more wild anti Bush stories they are going to have to try to play to their core of support.

Maybe they hope their core supporters will buy copies for friends... ;-)

[kcvl]

two former employees said

There is probably a reason they are "former".

[dannyboy72]

If there is any verifiable damage done to the military effort - if the program can no longer be carried out, if a terrorist uses this as a way to recruit more terrorists, anything - then this is an official act of treason. The Times is publishing the actions of our government in a time of war, broadcasting our war plans to the enemy. It's time to arrest those responsible and parade them out in front of the rest of the media to be told, if you print anything that discusses our war efforts you will be tried and imprisoned, stripped of your citizenship and deported to ANWAR to work on the new pipeline.

They are seriously crossing the line. Anyone with any inkling of understanding national security will support their imprisonment. and anyone who stands against this action will be showing temselves are people who need not be leaders in our country when my child has to count on that leadr for his life.

[kcvl]

A man in Standard Oil of Ohio's market research department found himself spending his days in a car at shopping centers and truck-stops, stealthily peering through binoculars, spying on the competition. He was scribbling down the license plates of vehicles pulling in and out of garages and filling stations, gathering intelligence on why motorists were choosing Standard Oil's rivals.

The employee was Jeff Gerth.



the Wen Ho Lee story, which Gerth wrote with James Risen. Lee is the Los Alamos scientist who the Times reported was suspected of leaking critical nuclear secrets to the Chinese. The spying case fell apart.

the Times came under enormous fire for what was viewed by many as one-sided reporting with a prosecutorial bent.


After twenty-five years with the Times, twenty-one of them in Washington, Gerth is the consummate insider, and yet little is known of him beyond his byline. "I am anonymous," he says proudly.


His wife, Janice O'Connell, works on the Foreign Relations Committee for Senator Christopher Dodd, who, during the 1996 Presidential campaign, chaired the Democratic National Committee.


Gerth piece, published in Penthouse in 1974, focused on Richard Nixon and organized crime. "Yet behind the shadows of Watergate lurks another series of questionable Nixon associations -- those with the underworld," wrote Gerth.


One of the two books Gerth cites as most meaningful to him is Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, the story of the Watergate investigation.


"If I were a crusader," Gerth says, "I wouldn't have dropped the Whitewater story. I would have stayed on it and continued to write more and more stories.


Gerth's work on Whitewater. "His [first] story was incomprehensible," says an experienced Washington investigative reporter who asked that his name not be used. "I probably read the piece fifteen times trying to figure out what he was talking about."


"I was overwhelmed at how great an investigator he was," says Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA general counsel, chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and federal judge.


Seymour Hersh, who ushered Gerth into The New York Times,


The Times has grown accustomed to gloating over Gerth's exclusives.


Lanny J. Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton
"I'm a pretty good expert on Jeff Gerth," Davis says.
I would rank him one of the two or three best reporters I worked with.


Gerth's reporting on Webb Hubbell
Davis says that as special counselor to Clinton, he took an active role in responding to Gerth's questions.


Gerth also played a brief but significant role in the reporting of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was Gerth who reported a controversial Sunday meeting between Clinton and his personal secretary, Betty Currie

Gerth said he resisted efforts to say that the accounts of Clinton and Currie "contradicted" each other. "I was under great stress and pressure on deadline at a very late hour -- and I am not a late-hour person -- I am usually in bed at the time this incident took place. I relented and let them use the word 'differ' letting them think they had won a great victory when in fact in my mind the word 'differ' means nothing because almost any two people or things can differ, it doesn't mean they contradict each other."


Jeff Gerth, who played a key role in the first Wen Ho Lee stories. "I am not going to talk a lot about Wen Ho Lee," he says.

Jeff Gerth, who played a key role in the first Wen Ho Lee stories. "I am not going to talk a lot about Wen Ho Lee," he says.


Says Gerth: "I was not involved in that story for a long time... the day he [Lee] was fired, [James] Risen did a story -- I was in New York that day


He later spoke of Risen as "the lead reporter" on the story. Indeed Notra Trulock III, the former intelligence director at the Energy Department who was a key source for the Times's Wen Ho Lee coverage, says that he dealt exclusively with Risen, and met Gerth only after the stories were printed.


FBI investigators waved the Times's stories in front of Lee as they interrogated him, and that, in congressional hearings, charts featured footnotes referring to articles in the Times.


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[SunStar]

Islamic Leaders Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda

Naw... This has to be from Al Jazerra or Al Arabiya... How could this have come out of New York, USA? [/logic]

[Rome2000]

The "New York Times" and "Newsweek" are not monolithic faceless alien oracles.

They are run by the the likes of the leftist homosexual on the right, ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR., and the socialist crook on the left, DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post.

Every day these 2 enemies of the state unleash a horde of minor league propagandists on the American psyche in a blatant attempt to topple any GOP governement that is duly elected by the American people, National Security be dammed and it doesn't matter how many soldiers or innocents die in the process.

2006 is the year they will be stopped.

They will no longer be able to hide unde a cloak of annonymity.

They will be exposed and their names equated with treacherous acts.

They and their komrades will be surveilled and brought up on charges.

OFFICERS

Chairman Emeritus: Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, age 71, $1,397,200 pay (prior to title change)

Chairman; Publisher, The New York Times: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., age 46, $960,200 pay (prior to promotion)

VC and SVP: Michael Golden, age 48

President and CEO: Russell T. Lewis, age 50, $882,235 pay (prior to promotion)

SVP Operations and Acting CFO: John M. O'Brien, age 54

SVP and Deputy COO: David L. Gorham, $796,000 pay

[panzer_grey]

"Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda""

Hey, maybe the New York Times can get these Muslim scholars assassinated!!!

Wow, that will be a real feather in the Time's hat!!!

[OldArmy52]

Something like this would be a very sensitive, confidential if not classified info war op. Someone may have broken security regs leaking this.

[bannie]

Is this rag TRYING to commit suicide? It's just one self-inflicted slash after another with these idiots.

[Cementjungle]

Next thing you know the Slimes will be publishing coordinates of our ammo dumps.

[billhilly]

The New York Times is a paid propogandist organization against American interests. They must not want amateur and low paid competition.

[Sub-Driver]

I felt like punching my monitor after reading this crap.....