Drones in Pakistan: Equal Time for Killers?
The New York Times has a long piece (8/12/11) looking at the question of how many civilians in Pakistan are killed by CIA drones. The agency doesn't even speak about the program on the record, except...
View ArticleNYT on WikiLeaks: Move Along, No Atrocity to See Here
(UPDATE: Today's Times includes a story about the WikiLeaks Iraq cable, under the somewhat strange headline "Cable Implicates Americans in Deaths of Iraqi Civilians." Still very little in the rest of...
View ArticleNYT Lets Nameless Official Smear Drone Researchers as Al-Qaeda Fans
Not even a week after Barack Obama declared that not too many civilians die in the CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan, a new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds that "at least 50...
View ArticleNYT Public Editor on Anonymity and Drone Story
After our new alert (2/24/12), the New York Times public editor's office contacted FAIR to let us know that Arthur Brisbane responded to readers who complained about one of the articles discussed in...
View ArticleBrennan's Support for Torture Is Not an 'Accusation'
Reporting on the news that President Barack Obama plans to nominate his terrorism adviser John Brennan to be head of the CIA, the New York Times writes that critics had been "claiming that...Brennan...
View ArticleChuck Hagel, Dove?
Barack Obama nominated Republican ex-Senator Chuck Hagel to be his next Defense secretary today. The story can seem a little bit confusing--often because of misleading recaps of Hagel's career, which...
View ArticleIs John Kiriakou a Whistleblower?
The Obama administration has pursued an unprecedented campaign to prosecute whistleblowers. The fact that John Kirikaou is facing such punishment reinforces the sense that he should be viewed as such a...
View ArticleKilling a Citizen: NYT, Awlaki and 'Muddying the Moral Clarity'
The Obama administration has not wanted to explain in any great detail how it justified killing an American citizen in Yemen. But there were apparently plenty of current and former officials willing to...
View Article'Terror Returns'–but When Did It Go Away?
"TERROR RETURNS" ran across USA Today's front page (4/16/13) in inch-high letters. Below, the story it referred to had a smaller headline: "That Post-9/11 Quiet? It's Over." Rick Hampson and Chuck...
View ArticleHeading to War With Syria
Providing convincing evidence that chemical attacks actually were the work of the Syrian government should be the first order of business. But it's hard not reach the conclusion that some in the media...
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