It is getting better. Check this out [Truthout trying to hide stealing a fraudulent article]

[William McKinley]

I am having a back and forth with Japan Today regarding their publishing of an article which appeared in Capitol Hill Blue that has subsequently been exposed to be false.

Japan Today did not get the article from Capitol Hill Blue though. They got it from Truthout.org, a leftist propaganda outfit.

I wanted to see if Truthout.org even had the story up on their site. I went to their main page, Truthout.org and checked. Nothing. I noticed a search box up at the top. So I took a phrase from the original article, sought significant quantities and hit search.

Bingo.

Here is what the resulting page looked like:

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Search results for 'sought and significant and quantities'
Refine search:

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Documents 1 - 10 of 18 matches. More 's indicate a better match.

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t r u t h o u t - Iraq Attacks Wound Seven U.S. Soldiers

... threat posed by Saddam in the run-up to the war. And the White House acknowledged Bush was incorrect when he said in January that Iraq recently had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903D.shtml 07/08/03, 11552 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Robert Scheer | A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Truth: They Lied

... uranium connection as a major justification for rushing the nation to war: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa." What the president did not say was that the British were relying on their intelligence white paper ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903C.shtml 07/08/03, 12192 bytes

t r u t h o u t - White House Admits Lying About Iraq Nukes

... weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush lied in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.   The acknowledgment came as a British parliamentary commission questioned the reliability of ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070903A.shtml 07/08/03, 24043 bytes

t r u t h o u t - US Ambassador: 'Nuclear Report Ignored' By Administration

... .   Bush, in his State of the Union speech on Jan. 23, declared that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."   After Bush's speech, Wilson said he contacted the State Department, noted that the ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070803E.shtml 07/07/03, 15966 bytes

t r u t h o u t - The Selling of the Iraq War

... choice about the most important question a nation faces: whether or not to go to war. That is exactly what the Bush administration did when it sought to convince the public and Congress that the United States should go to war with Iraq.     From late August 2002 to mid-March of this year ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070703A.shtml 07/06/03, 55335 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Diplomat: British Ministers Knew Evidence was Forged

... office of the Vice-President, Dick Cheney.   During eight days in Niger he discovered it was impossible for Iraq to have been buying the quantities of uranium alleged. "My report was very unequivocal," he said. He also learnt that the signatures of officials vital to any transaction ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/070103B.shtml 06/30/03, 12799 bytes

t r u t h o u t - 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq

... to the occasional lie of expediency but, in fact, almost never told the truth.     What follows are just the most outrageous and significant of the dozens of outright lies uttered by Bush and his top officials over the past year in what amounts to a systematic campaign to scare the bejeezus ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062903G.shtml 06/28/03, 16884 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Serious Questions for Tony Blair

... was attempting to build nuclear weapons that could pose a threat to the West.   The Government has stood by reports that Iraq "sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa". British officials say the intelligence was based on multiple sources, despite the IAEA ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062703G.shtml 06/26/03, 13840 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Byrd: 'The Road to Coverup is the Road to Ruin'

... the President who appears to me to be intent on revising history. There is an abundance of clear and unmistakable evidence that the Administration sought to portray Iraq as a direct and deadly threat to the American people. But there is a great difference between the hand-picked intelligence that was ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062503A.shtml 06/24/03, 22919 bytes

t r u t h o u t - Rep. Waxman | Forged Iraq WMD Evidence

... on This Week, you repeated this statement, claiming that you made multiple inquiries of the intelligence agencies regarding the allegation that Iraq sought to obtain uranium from an African country. You stated:   George, somebody, somebody down may have known. But I will tell you that when ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/061303B.shtml 06/13/03, 19626 bytes

Notice that the third result is a match for Doug Thompson's article.

But wait, there's more.

I click on it- and what do I find? It now goes to a completely different article, from the Washington Post. In other words, they had it up, and they took it down to make it look like they didn't have it.

Unfortunately for them, their search engine's cache still has it. At least for the time being. Others should replicate what I have done here for verification. I am sure they will be 'fixing' this slip up hastily.

[mystery-ak]

TLBSHOW is no longer with us in freeperland.

become a monthly donor.

[Registered]

"And if you are really feeling feisty.....check out DU where Will Pitt is a huge contributor."

Let's be realistic, huge contributions to DU normally have a Lincoln on the bill.

[Registered]

..then again, if contribution is grammatical excrement, he does contribute quite a bit!

[Scenic Sounds]

You are a dynamo!!

Great job!

[Sabertooth]

The William Pitt info is interesting, but if I might play devil's advocate for a moment... isn't it a little too easy?

There's a dust-up going on yesterday and today with FR, CHB, and truthout. Marc Ash is covering tracks at truthout as fast as he can, and what does William Rivers Pitt do?

He registers at Capitol Hill Blue today, and completes the circle back to truthout on his personal profile?

I suppose he could be that stupid, but don't we have to allow for the possibility of another set-up?

[Sloth]

I nominate William McKinley for Freeper of the Year. I realize there probably is no such thing, but I nominate him anyway. :)

[The Scorpion King]

I saw some of these same articles on "the information clearing house" website ( a Liberal friend told me about it). The information clearing house reads like an issue of Pravda from the early '80s. I don't put much stock in "truthout."

[Registered]

"I suppose he could be that stupid"

I'll second that. All in favor so signify...

[SevenofNine]

YOU RANGGGGG Registered

Hey honey yeah I was thereee so some other freepers that I not going name you could check out directory Honey

[MJY1288]

So! do you think William Rivers Pitt is the screen name for Marc Ash?

[piasa]

I suppose he could be that stupid, but don't we have to allow for the possibility of another set-up?

Yes.

[doug from upland]

Pitt is a teacher from the Boston area. He was bragging on the lunatic site that he was talking with Aaron Brown's producer and expected to be going on the air. I called the producer a few times and outed Pitt for what he was --- I used his words against him and had to invent nothing. He was the one who shoved his own head up his own you know what.

I sent an e-mail to Aaron and let him know the following:

- Pitt has put in writing (an would not take it back after challenged) that Reagan, through Ollie North, sent the bomb to the Middle East that killed our Marines in Beirut.

- I named the various Bush-hating sites on which he writes.

- He has put in writing that his goal in life is to destroy Bush politically.

- Amazingly, he put in writing, when asked the question, that he has not ever voted for John Kerry because he is in Ted Kennedy's district.

Here are some other gems from Pitt:

"In the most delicious irony of this campaign, Republican standard-bearer George W. Bush has imitated, with as much accuracy as his pea-brain can muster,"

"You wanted it, George. You wanted it so badly you allowed it to be stolen for you. You wanted it so badly that you allowed a new breed of Brownshirt thug to be unleashed upon our American soil,"

"You wanted it, George. Is it everything you expected? Are you bothered by the fact that a vast majority of Americans see you as a figurehead, jerked to and fro by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove? Are you hurt by the fact that most Americans consider you to be a sub-par intellect? Do you pray at night for Cheney's heart? Do your hands tremble at the thought of having to do the job all by yourself?"

"There was even a call by a writer from the National Review for Chelsea be killed because her last name is Clinton."

"You have failed. You are not a leader. The honor you purport to espouse and represent is yet another of your lies. You have awakened a slumbering beast, George. We rose up once and tore down Johnson. We rose up and tore down Nixon. We changed the face of this country with our righteous rage. For many years we slumbered, unsettled but still. Your coming has birthed us again.

We come for you, George. You wanted it so badly that you took it, and now you must face us. We are legion. There shall be a reckoning, George. Woe unto you because of it. As God is my witness, there shall be a reckoning."

John Ashcroft: American Fascist
by William Rivers Pitt, 12.07.01

"Short of Nixon's crew, no more criminal and murderous a mob has ever occupied the White House than those who came in under the Reagan/Bush flag."

"Besides, Bush has little to fear from anthrax. It only got close to him that one time because poisoned letters meant to assassinate Senate Democrats passed through the same post office as his personal correspondence. Whoever is sending the letters seems a political ally of Bush, considering the choice of targets thus far. This must make him feel even safer in his House. Still, it remains closed."

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I suspect that Aaron saw him for what he was. Pitt then sent off e-mails to him trying to eviscerate him. A fun time was had by all, except Pitt.

[Jim Robinson]

I second your nomination.

[SevenofNine]

Hey Doug so you think that dude is William Pitt I see some of his column yes his views on fringe

[GATOR NAVY]

I just tried to see the article at Japan Today and got this:

"Sorry, the requested item is unavailable.
You are being redirected to the index page."

They've pulled it.

[piasa]

I don't know, but the register date on the web site , no matter who is behind putting thas article on it, bothers me:

Organization:
Marc Ash
Marc Ash
767 S San Pedro St
Los Angelos, CA 90014
US
Phone: 213-489-1971
Email: admin@artfix.com

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: TRUTHOUT.ORG

Created on..............: Mon, Sep 10, 2001
Expires on..............: Wed, Sep 10, 2003
Record last updated on..: Mon, Nov 25, 2002

[Chad Fairbanks]

I've got my own 'inside, unnamed sources' looking into this mess too - of course, having been rated an OS in the Navy my motto has always been 'In God We Trust, All Others we Track and report' so any info I find out will be checked, double-checked, and checked again.

I have the rubber gloves and flashlight ready...

Excellent work, Mr. McKinley

[arasina]

I've already bookmarked your blogsite. Hope this CHB/truthout.org/Thompson/Ash/Ritter story doesn't cause a blogjam. :-)

[Admin Moderator]

Can I add something to the mix?

At 3:08 today one of our returning trolls posted the article as it appeared on Japan Today.

The user also was kind enough to include a link to Stormfront.

The user has had many names here, and gets banned immediately because his ilk are not welcome here.

For what it is worth. AM

[Cathryn Crawford]

Check your FR mail re:this ASAP.