How the U.S. Government uses its media servants to attack real journalism

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Jul. 17, 2011 (News Analysis)

Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the most significant political exposés of the year. Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) are taken (along with Somali nationals) to be ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 18, 2011

Greenwald clearly and explicitly presents the case of CNN and ABC abdicating their role as journalists reporting the truth to a democracy, and in the process supporting torture and violation of civil and human rights.

Through this method, the U.S. Government need not directly attack real journalists. They simply activate their journalistic servants to do it for them, and those servants ... More »

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the Nation article underscores how the CIA is “maintaining a series of ‘special relationships’ under which cooperating ... More »

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The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia

The Nation | Jul. 12, 2011

Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war in Somalia.

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Red Cross Provided With Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA

Democracy Now by Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman | Jul. 13, 2011 (News Report)

Democracy Now! correspondent and The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson with the location of the ...

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The CIA’s Secret Prison in Somalia

Harper's by Scott Horton | Jul. 17, 2011 (News Analysis)

The Obama Administration’s recent decision to charge a Somali militant named Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame with crimes in a federal court in Manhattan has focused a good deal of ...

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