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[Nbadan]

The unresolved story of ABC News' false Saddam-anthrax reports, by Glenn Greenwald

...Someone clearly invented false stories about the anthrax investigation and fed them to Brian Ross, knowing he would run all over ABC News programs heaping blame on Saddam for those attacks. In fact, Ross said that there were at least four highly-placed, separate sources who told him that.

How can ABC and Ross justify continuing to conceal the iden y of these sources -- some of whom, presumably, were and still are in the Bush administration -- when those sources concocted lies with the intent to manipulate Ross and the American public into believing that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the anthrax attacks?

There is a widely accepted journalistic principle that reporters are not required to conceal the iden y of anonymous sources who feed them false information with the intent to induce the journalist to disseminate the falsehoods. In fact, in such a situation, there is an obligation on the part of the reporter to reveal who the sources are who passed on those lies.

Multiple people, in key positions, made numerous false statements to Brian Ross suggesting that Saddam was responsible for the anthrax attacks and made false claims about the results of government tests on anthrax. They did so with the clear intent to mislead the whole country on the most critical issue we faced -- a fraud which resulted in damage that is impossible to quantify but unquestionably significant. How can ABC News and Brian Ross justify continuing to protect the people were who led them to perpetuate that fraud? Shouldn't we know who invented those false stories and fed them to ABC?

Salon

ABC News compromising itself for who's benefit again? Whatever happened to all that investigative reporting ABC News used to do when the Demo's controlled the legislature and the Prez? Are there no more scandal?

[boutons_]

ABC is a Repug fiefdom. Saddam-did-anthrax is another lie justifying dubya invading Iraq.

Remember ABC did that mini-series "dramatization" trashing Clinton+staff with totally fic ious bull that the Clinton people said never happened.

All Repug/Rove filth and lies, all the time.

[xrayzebra]

^^Yes, Yes, boutons, we know. Just calm down, take the
little tablet and you will feel better in a little while. Go listen
to CNN and read the lastest left wing blogs and you will be
okay. See, don't you feel better already.....I knew you would.