Conyers vs. The Post

[muchacho]

There is painful irony in the fact that, during the same month that the confirmation of "Deep Throat's" identity has allowed the Washington Post to relive its Watergate-era glory days, that newspaper is blowing the dramatically more significant story of the "fixed" intelligence the Bush administration used to scam Congress and U.S. allies into supporting the disasterous invasion and occupation of
Iraq.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=2281&e=1&u=/thenation/20050619/cm_thenation/13617

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Great article.... and it's on Yahoo - rate it up!

Thanks for the find!

[reprehensor]

2. Nichols rocks!

Glad he's on our side.

[UpInArms]

3. thank you for posting this muchacho!

the final paragraphs were so poignant as to bring tears to my eyes:

The years of the Bush presidency will be remembered as a time when American media, for the most part, practiced stenography to power -- and when once-great newspapers became little more than what the reformers of another time referred to as "the kept press."

The Conyers letter, like the thousands of communications from grassroots activists to media outlets across this country pressing for serious coverage of the "Downing Street Memo" and the broader debate about the Bush administration's doctoring of intelligence prior to the launch of the Iraq war, is an essential response to our contemporary media crisis. That it had to be written provides evidence of just how serious that crisis has grown.

[WePurrsevere]

4. This was excellent!

Emailed it from Yahoo to a few folks I know would want to read it. Of course it doesn't hurt to try and bump it up to the Most Emailed section either. :D