Jack Anderson died last Saturday morning. He gave me a job as a reporter in 1968. He taught me that a kid from California could investigate anything and ask anyone in government any question. He taught me to be good, reporters needed to “look in the gutter and under rocks ” for stories and source. He taught me that too much time in power corrupts. Jack believed in teaching young reporters like me to get to know the drivers, message takers, maids, and ex-wives of the powerful to get news. He taught me that I could overcome a state education and the lack of an ivy- league pedigree by simply calling more people than anyone else. That is how Jack became the best reporter of his generation. No one spoke truth to power as eloquently as Jack Anderson.
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CIA and private security sources tell www.storiesthatmatter.org that the desperate reality of the security situation in Afghanistan is being hidden from the public. One source who trained Karzai’s security forces said that a number of assassination attempts against Karzai have never been publicly reported. Tom Clines, a veteran CIA officer and former Iran-Contra figure [...] A National Security News Service investigation shows that of the numerous security contractors in Iraq, several are a new breed of CIA front companies that are staffed by Agency employees on leave and run under subcontracts by trusted CIA private contractors. Suspension of normal contracting rules in wartime has allowed a curious mixture of [...] A number of contracted studies, including a new study conducted by the Army War College by outside experts, are calling the U.S. invasion of Iraq a failure that has essentially given Iran the victory it sought over Iraq in the stalemated Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s. A Pentagon source who has seen the studies tells NSNS that “a number of experts who are respected in the military have concluded that the result of the war in Iraq has been to provide Iran effective control of Southern Iraq and a military presence through Shi’a leaders it controls.” Continue reading Classified and Internal Studies Call US War a Victory for Iran |
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