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Obama Could Work for The New York Times

ApolloSpeaks18 Wrote: Jun 30, 2009 10:30 AM
On April 16th Barack Obama released a selection of the redacted Torture Memos depicting the waterboarding of three Al Qaida terrorists. This triggered a fierce debate about national security culminating in the duel between Obama and D*ck Cheney. Unnoticed by everyone was that April 16th was an ominous day, a day of shock and horror for America, the anniversary of one of the worst mass murder attacks in US history: the Virginia Tech Massacre; a possible sign of coming disaster, a sign of the next 9/11.

Click my name and read my piece: The Opening of Pandora's Box: Nancy Pelosi, Torturegate and Signs of the Next 9/11.

Back in 2008, New York Times correspondent David S. Rohde, along with Afghan reporter Taki Luden, were abducted in Pakistan by the Taliban. Because they felt it might adversely affect hostage rescue efforts, the Times requested a news black-out. The Associated Press and other news agencies respected the request and only broke the story recently, after Rohde and Luden had scaled a wall and made their escape. It would be nothing other than a story with a happy ending, except that the Times has time and again ignored the government’s requests that it not report the specific ways in which we...