Get your tinfoil hat out.
Okay, maybe I'm drawing a connection that's not there, but take a look at this.
Last night, the NYTimes publishes a story with massive publicity where agents of the FBI very directly criticized the Bush administration's secret NSA spying saying that it was more widespread than previously revealed and that it was spying on almost exclusively innocent people.
Today, with no news hook and no preciptous event, the AP is featuring a story critical of the FBI (AP top ten stories) that could have been published anytime over the last month or the next. And check the tone, "FBI Missed Internal Signs of Espionage"
We'll never know for sure, but a major article undermining the FBI's credibility just happens to be published the day after that NYTimes article? What a coincidence!!!!!
Last night, the NYTimes publishes a story with massive publicity where agents of the FBI very directly criticized the Bush administration's secret NSA spying saying that it was more widespread than previously revealed and that it was spying on almost exclusively innocent people.
Today, with no news hook and no preciptous event, the AP is featuring a story critical of the FBI (AP top ten stories) that could have been published anytime over the last month or the next. And check the tone, "FBI Missed Internal Signs of Espionage"
By the government's own account, FBI analyst Leandro Aragoncillo was spying in plain sight. He rummaged through FBI computers for intelligence reports unrelated to his work and then e-mailed the classified documents to opposition leaders in the Philippines.
He had traveled more than a dozen times to the Asian country on personal business since 2000. And records show he carried debt of at least a half-million dollars — on Marine retirement pay and an entry-level FBI salary.
But for at least seven months, the bureau that makes catching spies its No. 2 mission after fighting terrorism missed signs of espionage in its own ranks — again.
We'll never know for sure, but a major article undermining the FBI's credibility just happens to be published the day after that NYTimes article? What a coincidence!!!!!
posted by mikevotes at
8:38 PM
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Funny, and a few months ago it came out that the US government(military) plants stories in the Iraqi press. Maybe now it'll come out that they do it in the US press. Although, I don't know why anyone would be surprised.
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Justin, at 3:50 AM
Well, I would say this is probably more of a conditional leak than a planted story, the difference being that there was no cash transaction of direct force behind this.
It was probably a source saying, print this now and I'll give you something later or vice versa. Not much better, but not unheard of. Just really slimy.
Occasionally somebody will leak with the guarante that they will get a flattering puff piece down the line before the election or when their up for promotion.
No evidence, just a for instance, wasn't it strange that CNN covered Trent Lott's announcement to Run for the senate again for the 5th time in total live. Looking back, I remember that Lott was the one who told CNN the bombshell that the secret prisons tory was leaked by a Republican Senator or staff. Early November.
Don't know, just two odd occurences.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:47 AM
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