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The U.S. news media is framing the debate about the WikiLeaks revelations of the Iraq War's savagery as a story about the alleged misconduct of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, in an attempt to destroy the message by discrediting the messenger, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
In an interview with RT America, McGovern criticized the U.S. media's focus on Assange and whether he should be prosecuted for releasing the secrets, rather than on the grisly details about the war contained in nearly 400,000 secret military field reports that WikiLeaks released last weekend. (The story summary continues below.) McGovern suggests that the reason for this concentration on Assange instead of what the documents reveal is that otherwise the U.S. press corps would have to come to grips with the fact that the U.S. government committed "the supreme international crime" by invading Iraq and thus touching off the barbarity that the documents recount. To comment to us by e-mail, click here. |
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