Monday
Washington Week in Review, a study in conflict of interest
October 28, 2005
So here we have reporters from the NYT, Time, and NBC, three of the news organizations who were subpoenaed by Fitzgerald. No, this is not acceptable. But it gets worse. Watch Michael Duffy dissemble:
Duffy knows very well indeed that there is no evidence that Libby learned Plame’s identity from reporters. He knows it because Duffy’s colleague, Matt Cooper has written an account of receiving this information from Libby.
IF you read the whole thing you will find it a travesty of Republican talking points.
Washington Week in Review is produced by WETA which is solely responsible for its content. When they fail to take this story seriously it shames our community before the whole world. And to the extent we permit this to be done in our name, we are complicit. So, I asking Sharon Percy Rockefeller to impress upon Gwen Ifill the necessity of treating this as a serious national security story and at minimum avoid the egregious conflict of interest of having anyone from The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun Times, Creators Syndicate, Time Magazine, CNN or any TimeWarner property, The New York Times or NBC comment on this story.
I respectfully ask Sharon Percy Rockefeller to refrain from producing shows that humiliate us in front of the whole world.
IFILL: Tonight we examine the White House at a crossroads legally, politically and perilously with Michael Duffy of Time magazine, Pete Williams of NBC News, Jeanne Cummings of The Wall Street Journal and Todd Purdum of The New York Times.
So here we have reporters from the NYT, Time, and NBC, three of the news organizations who were subpoenaed by Fitzgerald. No, this is not acceptable. But it gets worse. Watch Michael Duffy dissemble:
Now at the heart of his case is essentially a road map that puts in place a bunch of pieces we'd sort of felt and seen and glimpsed but never had all in one place, and it essentially says that while Libby told federal investigators that he'd learned about Valerie Plame, the CIA officer's identity, from reporters, there isn't much evidence of that. In fact, the evidence that Fitzgerald put on the table today showed that Libby went out and sought the information about Wilson--Joe Wilson's mission to Niger--that's Plame's husband--discussed that with officials in the White House about how to disseminate it, and also learned about the identity from three other intelligence officers--or--one including the vice president. So he basically said that Libby's story just doesn't stack up against the evidence.
Duffy knows very well indeed that there is no evidence that Libby learned Plame’s identity from reporters. He knows it because Duffy’s colleague, Matt Cooper has written an account of receiving this information from Libby.
IF you read the whole thing you will find it a travesty of Republican talking points.
Washington Week in Review is produced by WETA which is solely responsible for its content. When they fail to take this story seriously it shames our community before the whole world. And to the extent we permit this to be done in our name, we are complicit. So, I asking Sharon Percy Rockefeller to impress upon Gwen Ifill the necessity of treating this as a serious national security story and at minimum avoid the egregious conflict of interest of having anyone from The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun Times, Creators Syndicate, Time Magazine, CNN or any TimeWarner property, The New York Times or NBC comment on this story.
I respectfully ask Sharon Percy Rockefeller to refrain from producing shows that humiliate us in front of the whole world.
// posted by Alice @ 10/31/2005 09:35:00 PM 
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