{"id":1745,"date":"2009-04-28T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2009-04-28T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:46:52","slug":"cia-propagandized-in-us-about-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/28\/cia-propagandized-in-us-about-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Propagandized in U.S. About Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"New York Times Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/28\/business\/media\/28abc.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the New York Times story headlined <em>How \u201907 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t say it in the article, but I would bet that the CIA pueposely had this person lie to us to in order to poison the debate on this subject.\u00a0 If true, I believe this would be a violation of the CIA&#8217;s charter.\u00a0 It would not be the first time they violated this charter.<\/p>\n<p>I have not checked these out, but here are a few references I found at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namebase.org\/news17.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer<\/a><\/strong> by Daniel Brandt From <em>NameBase NewsLine<\/em>, No. 17, April-June 1997<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, &#8220;The CIA&#8217;s 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World&#8217;s Views,&#8221; New York Times, 25 December 1977, pp. 1, 12; Terrence Smith, &#8220;CIA Contacts With Reporters,&#8221; New York Times, p. 13; Crewdson and Treaster, &#8220;Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA,&#8221; New York Times, 26 December 1977, pp. 1, 37; Crewdson and Treaster, &#8220;CIA Established Many Links to Journalists in U.S. and Abroad,&#8221; New York Times, 27 December 1977, pp. 1, 40-41.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the New York Times story headlined How \u201907 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate. They don&#8217;t say it in the article, but I would bet that the CIA pueposely had this person lie to us to in order to poison the debate on this subject.\u00a0 If true, I believe this would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}