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2005-02-13 Home Front: WoT

Pentagon Espionage Unit Loses Its Leader

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Posted by Steve White 2005-02-13 12:30:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More WAPO crap. The real story, buried under a headline meant to look like a shake up, a lead in meant to look like a Rumsfeld power-grabbing conspiracy and a resignation by Waldrup that is meant to imply discontent. Yet none of those things pan out if you bother to read far enough:

In news briefings late last month, defense officials stressed that funding for the unit in its current form was approved by Congress in the 2005 budget, and said they had no intention to evade congressional oversight. They said confusion had arisen about the program because the name of the effort had changed over time. They also emphasized that the Pentagon was working cooperatively with the CIA in developing the program, not trying to bypass it.

It's like reading the Globe or Enquirer. Headline: JONBENET'S MOTHER CONFESSES!! And then you open it up and it's a picture of her coming out of a confessional booth and a short bit about her joining a new church.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-13 1:57:29 AM|| 2005-02-13 1:57:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So right, 2b. As usual, the MSM misses the real story in its zeal to attack the administration. Obviously, something important is going on here, but what is it? The article doesn't tell us.

The guy is a reservist. He was probably brought in as an outsider to shake things up ala Wild Bill Donovan. So was he incompetent as the article implies, or was this a case of the institution closing ranks on an outsider and forcing him out? And why am I sitting here asking these kinds of J-school 101 questions instead of the reporter and his editor?

Posted by 11A5S 2005-02-13 7:03:42 AM|| 2005-02-13 7:03:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 And why am I sitting here asking these kinds of J-school 101 questions instead of the reporter and his editor?

Because you aren't part of the Washington Post industry?

Posted by Pappy 2005-02-13 2:16:13 PM|| 2005-02-13 2:16:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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