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June 2006, Page 10

The Rove scoop that wasn’t: a mini-retrospective on Truthout’s Jason Leopold

… as told by Joe Lauria, someone who is quite familiar with Truthout.org’s Jason Leopold and his penchant for using underhanded tactics to get ‘scoops’ that often turn out to be false – like the one from May 13 in which he claimed to have the scoop from anonymous but supposedly reliable sources that Karl Rove had been indicted in le affaire de Plame, which we now know was untrue......   [Read More]

Murtha advocated cut and run in Somalia, and he’s doing it now

Sweetness and Light has the details and background on Murtha’s call for a complete withdrawal of US troops in Somalia in 1993 after the Black Hawk down incident – an incident that further inspired OBL and his terrorist followers to believe that the US would cut and run when faced with waves of US troop casualties......   [Read More]