Media Treason: A Bloody War For Your Mind
Posted by Mike@RadarPress on April 10, 2007
Did ABC Help Lead Us to War With Iraq?
The unresolved story of ABC News’ false Saddam-anthrax reports
By: Glenn Greenwald salon.com (subscription required)
At the end of the post I wrote last week about ABC News and Brian Ross’
new report that Iran could have nuclear weapons by 2009, I noted that
ABC and Ross — back in October and November 2001 — were the driving
force, really the exclusive force, behind news reports strongly
suggesting that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were responsible for the
anthrax attacks on the U.S. There are several very important issues
arising from those events which I strongly believe merit real
attention. This post is somewhat lengthy because it is vital to set
forth the facts clearly.
new report that Iran could have nuclear weapons by 2009, I noted that
ABC and Ross — back in October and November 2001 — were the driving
force, really the exclusive force, behind news reports strongly
suggesting that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were responsible for the
anthrax attacks on the U.S. There are several very important issues
arising from those events which I strongly believe merit real
attention. This post is somewhat lengthy because it is vital to set
forth the facts clearly.
Last week, I excerpted several of the Saddam-anthrax reports from ABC and Ross — here and here — but there are others. ABC aggressively promoted as its top story for days on end during that highly provocative period of time that — and these are all quotes:
(a) “the anthrax in the tainted letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was laced with bentonite”;(b) bentonite is “a troubling chemical additive that authorities consider their first significant clue yet”;(c) “only one country, Iraq, has used bentonite to produce biological weapons”;(d) bentonite “is a trademark of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program”; and,(e)
“the anthrax found in a letter to Senator Daschle is nearly identical
to samples they recovered in Iraq in 1994″ and “the anthrax spores
found in the letter to Senator Daschle are almost identical in
appearance to those they recovered in Iraq in 1994 when viewed under an
electron microscope.”
At different times, Ross
attributed these claims to “three well-placed but separate sources”
and, alternatively, to “at least four well-placed sources.”
All of those factual claims — each and every one of them, separately — were completely false,
demonstrably and unquestionably so. There is now no question about
that. Yet neither ABC nor Ross have ever retracted, corrected,
clarified, or explained these fraudulent reports — reports which, as
documented below, had an extremely serious impact on the views formed
by Americans in those early, critical days about the relationship
between the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks and Iraq. There are two
vital questions that ABC News should answer:
demonstrably and unquestionably so. There is now no question about
that. Yet neither ABC nor Ross have ever retracted, corrected,
clarified, or explained these fraudulent reports — reports which, as
documented below, had an extremely serious impact on the views formed
by Americans in those early, critical days about the relationship
between the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks and Iraq. There are two
vital questions that ABC News should answer:
(1) How can ABC News just let these Saddam-anthrax reports — as false as they were consequential — remain uncorrected and unexplained, even through today?………..More
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