Newsweek, wrong or scared?

from bagnewsnotes.



As the debate in journalism rages about unattributed sources, as those referenced in the scathing article (now retracted) in Newsweek, which caused so much violence last week (see Koran Blue in last week's Party Primer.

"...among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet and led a detainee around with a collar and dog leash. An Army spokesman confirms that 10 Gitmo interrogators have already been disciplined for mistreating prisoners, including one woman who took off her top, rubbed her finger through a detainee's hair and sat on the detainee's lap. (New details of sexual abuse—including an instance in which a female interrogator allegedly wiped her red-stained hand on a detainee's face, telling him it was her menstrual blood—are also in a new book to be published this week by a former Gitmo translator.)".

Tim Porter's First Draft has excellent coverage of journalism and its loss of credibility over the unrestrained use of such anonymous sources.

I haven't had the chance to fully digest every bit of this story yet, but I'm wondering why Pentagon Officials, read and okayed the NEWSWEEK story, only to have the credibility of the story called into question, AFTER Arab/US relationships go to complete shit.

If the Pentagon wasn't shocked and outraged by the mere insinuation that this could happen then that's just as frightening as what was reported to have occurred.

I feel the powers that be have egg on their face, see Osama smiling in his cave over this MAJOR fucking setback in US/Arab relations, and are bringing their FULL influence to bare on Newsweek.

This retracted article emphasizes every crappy thing we've done (and face it, we'll do even more, because we have complete fuck heads running around out there with guns). But the press isn't supposed to be the FUCKING PR agency of the USA.

Stop pointing fingers at Newsweek and start NOT FUCKING WITH YOUR Prisoners. It's bad enough we keep them on a base on someone else's country just so we don't have to give them any rights. But STOP rubbing menstrual blood on their faces and shit.

Come the fuck on. They've been in a cage for a few years, they're not up to date on where all their Terrorist Camp Class of '99 classmates are!