W. Thomas Smith, Jr., who recently penned this spot-on piece on the media’s irresponsible reporting on military issues (which I referenced last week) has written another insightful piece, this time on the media spin swirling around the recent US and Iraqi military offensive Operation Swarmer:
Def. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld writes a piece for the Washington Post on the three year anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Snippet:
Earlier this week I blogged about the speculation that the Iraqi featured in this NYTimes story (using the CommonDreams reprint link because the direct link to the NYT story is no longer free to access) who identified himself as the man who was photographed hooded and standing atop the box during the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses was not, in fact, the detainee in the photo.
I received the following email today from ST reader NC Cop:
