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From Newsweek (4/5/2004): Ahmad Chalabi has never paid much attention to rules. As an international financier, he was convicted in absentia in 1992 of embezzling millions from his own bank in Jordan. In the mid-'90s, the CIA tried to make... Posted Wed 04/14/2004
List distributed by the Iraqi National Congress (INC) summarizing articles in major English-language news outlets worldwide (October 2001-May 2002) using propaganda information disseminated by their Information Collection Program (ICP). The goal of the ICP was to plant information (much of... Posted Wed 04/14/2004
Scalia orders reporters to erase Constitution speech AP via USA Today (4/8/2004) Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their tape recordings of a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Mississippi high school. Scalia has long... Posted Sat 04/10/2004
As reported here previously, in early 2003 the FBI and US Customs secretly "seized" a declassified government report being sent from one Associated Press reporter to another from a Federal Express facility in Indianapolis, IN. No warrant was ever issued,... Posted Tue 03/30/2004
The Defense Department sent a letter of complaint to the Washington Post, then met with the paper's top editors in an effort to crack down on the paper's military reporter, Tom Ricks. It is unusual -- if not unprecedented --... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
Quoting a release from US Central Command (CENTCOM). The following information may be used by those papers wishing to chart US casualties for the 14 days prior to and 14 days after Saddam's capture: Nov. 29 - 2 dead, 1... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
Disclosure of what the FBI knows about the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks could enable terrorists to engineer biological weapons to escape detection, the FBI says in documents filed in response to a lawsuit by a scientist labeled a "person of... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
New coverage of the executive branch is packed with quotes by "senior administration officials." The Bush team seems obsessed with keeping the names of top officials out of the news except for strictly sanctioned occasions. Who are the people behind the blind quotes? This key to the "SAOs" will help you decipher the dispatches. Posted Fri 01/02/2004
A phenomenal piece of work by Rowan Wolf at Correspondences.org compiling dozens of news stories on the Kurdish capture of Hussein. Posted Tue 12/30/2003
From the London Sunday Times: The Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign... Posted Tue 12/30/2003
From SecurityFocus.com: Call it the case of the missing White House. Users of Mapquest's free aerial photo database recently noticed that details of several Washington D.C. government buildings were no longer discernable in overhead images of the U.S. capital. A... Posted Wed 12/24/2003
As intrepid bloggers and a few others have been noticing, the Bush Admin has long maintained a practice of re-editing or simply deleting from government web sites media transcripts and documents that prove embarrassing. Now even the Washington Post has... Posted Wed 12/24/2003
Iraq's US-appointed interim leadership has banned an Arabic television station, accusing it of inciting violence against the coalition. Dubai-based al-Arabiya confirmed its Baghdad bureau had been forcibly shut. "Al-Arabiya incites murder because it's calling for killings through the voice of... Posted Mon 12/01/2003
From The Boston Globe: The Associated Press says soldiers in Iraq detained one of its photographers and a driver in late September near the site of the Abu Ghraib prison. Knight Ridder says its photographer at the scene of the... Posted Thu 11/20/2003
In the space of a single day, US forces have attacked the provisional headquarters of all major Western and Arabic news outlets in Baghdad, killing at least four reporters and injuring numerous others. Some reporters on the scene think this... Posted Wed 04/09/2003
Here is a complete transcript of Peter Arnett's fateful March 31 interview on Iraqi television. Arnett -- whose reporting has not been criticized (in this war, anyway) -- was of course immediately fired by both NBC and National Geographic Explorer... Posted Wed 04/02/2003
The eruption of war in Iraq last week set in motion a massive global PR network, cultivated by the Bush administration during the months-long buildup of forces. The network is intended not only to disseminate, but also to dominate news... Posted Thu 03/27/2003
President Bush signed an Executive Order today that delays the release of millions of documents that were due to be automatically declassified, as required by a 1975 law. What's more, he announced the government would actually re-classify documents already released... Posted Tue 03/25/2003
Clear Channel -- the largest owner of radio stations in the country -- is leveraging it's massive resources to promote the invasion of Iraq. Not just by using the stations they own to broadcast the likes of Rush Limbaugh, but... Posted Tue 03/25/2003
The Associated Press has just gone public with an event that happened in September. US Customs intercepted and seized a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters and turned the contents over the FBI. Bureau spokesman Doug Garrison said the... Posted Sat 03/15/2003
Hundreds of cities in 28 states are signing up for a program that funds police cars and other emergency vehicles by plastering advertising all over them. In return, municipalities pay just $1.00 per vehicle annually for three years. The program... Posted Sat 02/22/2003
The Defense Department has produced a training video that instructs its staff on how to handle requests under the federal Freedom of Information Act. But the DoD refuses to release the video under FOIA itself, supposedly because of copyright concerns.... Posted Sat 02/15/2003
