AP fact-checking at its best
In case you heard that Senators Kerry and Lugar blew a covert CIA agent's cover yesterday, Michelle Malkin has the real info. The AP article that made the claim apparently didn't do enough research. From Malkin:
Well, did they or didn't they blow it? Don't just rely on AP. Arms Control Wonk, the blog of Research Fellow Jeffrey Lewis at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, provides four previous media citations of the agent's name--all which make public reference to the agent, Fulton Armstrong, and the specific intelligence controversy at issue--dating back to September 2002.Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by the fact that a huge news reporting agency can falsely accuse or insinuate that Senators are threatening national security with near impunity? I mean, what is going to happen to AP because of this gaffe? Are newspapers like the Washington Post going to suddenly stop carrying AP wire reports? If anything, it'll be the papers that carried this story that'll take the flack, not AP directly.
posted by Q at 4/12/2005 12:03:00 PM
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