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ProPublica Retracts Key Claim Against Trump Pick For CIA Director

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more fake news?

The online news site ProPublica said Thursday night that it had retracted part of an article alleging Gina Haspel, President Trump's new choice to head the CIA, oversaw the waterboarding of an Al Qaeda suspect at a so-called agency "black site" in Thailand.

"We at ProPublica hold government officials responsible for their missteps, and we must be equally accountable," editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg said in a statement. "This error was particularly unfortunate because it muddied an important national debate about Haspel and the CIA’s recent history.

"To her, and to our readers, we can only apologize, correct the record and make certain that we do better in the future," Engelberg added.
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ProPublica retracts key claim against Trump pick for CIA director | Fox News

she didn't take over in thailand until after zubayhah was interrogated so she didn't see him drool

she mighta seen al nashiri drool, tho, she was there at that time

will nyt correct?

https://www.propublica.org/article/...ial&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1521153688

party on
 
The Prof said:
more fake news?



ProPublica retracts key claim against Trump pick for CIA director | Fox News

she didn't take over in thailand until after zubayhah was interrogated so she didn't see him drool

she mighta seen al nashiri drool, tho, she was there at that time

will nyt correct?

https://www.propublica.org/article/...ial&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1521153688

party on
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Nice to see a news organization take responsibility when they make a mistake. Note that they didn't leave the misinformation up for a week and flog it continuously after it was discredited. That's the difference between responsible journalism and, say, FOX News.
 
LOL!

tell it to nyt
 
bearpoker said:
Nice to see a news organization take responsibility when they make a mistake. Note that they didn't leave the misinformation up for a week and flog it continuously after it was discredited. That's the difference between responsible journalism and, say, FOX News.
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That's about all people should give them credit for. They deserve to be raked over the coals for this.

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There is no mistake. Gina Haspel's complicity in the CIA "Cats-Eye" secret black site near Bangkok, Thailand is well documented by the US Senate Select Committee that investigated CIA torture and subsequently passed specific laws to forbid such US activity in the future. Haspel certainly worked at the Thailand torture site (with fellow CIA officer James Cotsana) and actively participated in the torture of prisoners that had been "renditioned" to secret CIA black sites in Thailand, Egypt, Romania, Syria, and Poland. She was definitely involved when prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was waterboarded numerous times. Haspel also personally destroyed 92 videotapes of CIA torture at the Thailand black site. It is quite possible Gina Haspel would be arrested in Germany for her role in CIA "enhanced interrogations". Her actions violated the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners (war crimes).
 
bearpoker said:
Nice to see a news organization take responsibility when they make a mistake. Note that they didn't leave the misinformation up for a week and flog it continuously after it was discredited. That's the difference between responsible journalism and, say, FOX News.
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The damage is done. What is the "punishment" when they take responsibility for lying about a person?
 
Rogue Valley said:
There is no mistake. Gina Haspel's complicity in the CIA "Cats-Eye" secret black site near Bangkok, Thailand is well documented by the US Senate Select Committee that investigated CIA torture and subsequently passed specific laws to forbid such US activity in the future. Haspel certainly worked at the Thailand torture site (with fellow CIA officer James Cotsana) and actively participated in the torture of prisoners that had been "renditioned" to secret CIA black sites in Thailand, Egypt, Romania, Syria, and Poland. She was definitely involved when prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was waterboarded numerous times. Haspel also personally destroyed 92 videotapes of CIA torture at the Thailand black site. It is quite possible Gina Haspel would be arrested in Germany for her role in CIA "enhanced interrogations". Her actions violated the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners (war crimes).
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Addendum: Publisher Offers Free E-Book Of Torture Report In Response To Gina Haspel's CIA Nomination
 
Barnacle said:
The damage is done. What is the "punishment" when they take responsibility for lying about a person?
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ProPublica erred in one point. The bulk of the story, which is that she ran a black site in Thailand which practiced torture, participated in "enhanced interrogations" and destroyed evidence of torture is unrefuted.
 
AFAICT, the claims weren't really that "key". If you care about torture, blacksites and the CIA, their story is still very important. If you are pro-torture, then what's the big deal?
 
The ProPublica article was published right after the Trump administration promoted Haspel to the CIA's #2 job in early February, 2017 in what appears to be nothing more than a political hit piece.
 
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