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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (119770)	4/3/2008 9:32:13 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

They have been doing it for some time now. Here is another. DRUDGE: PAPER: '60 MINUTES' DUPED; IRAN DEFECTOR SAID TO BE FRAUD! MICHAEL SPITZER Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:36:47 -0700 XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SATURDAY JUNE 10 2000 19:14:20 ET XXXXX PAPER: '60 MINUTES' DUPED; IRAN DEFECTOR SAID TO BE FRAUD! The CIA and the FBI have concluded that an Iranian defector in Turkey who claimed on CBS's 60 MINUTES be a former Iranian intelligence official and terrorist mastermind -- is an impostor who lacks basic knowledge of Iran's intelligence apparatus! "He has been lying about lots of stuff,'' a senior U.S. official tells Sunday's WASHINGTON POST, according to publishing sources. MORE In his interview with the CBS News program' a week ago, the defector identified himself as Ahmad Behbahani and claimed to have been in charge of assassinations and terrorist operations for the Iranian government. Lesley Stahl claimed the man had documentary evidence that Iran was behind the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland, that killed 270 people and the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia that took the lives of 19 U.S. military personnel. As a result of the June 4 60 MINUES broadcast, the defector's tale made headlines around the world. "But after a series of debriefing sessions with the defector at an undisclosed location in Turkey, counterterrorist experts from the CIA and the FBI have concluded that he is not Ahmad Behbahani and that, at 32 years old, he could not possibly have masterminded terrorist operations dating to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103," the POST's Vernon Loeb has learned. The blowup may once again cause complete embarrassment for CBS and 60 MINUTES. The program's executive producer Don Hewitt was forced to apologize for running a bogus story about heroin smuggling in 1998. The story was based on a British documentary that said Colombia's Cali drug cartel had a new heroin smuggling route to London. Legal experts and TV producers later determined that locations had been faked and actors paid to portray various people in it. "We felt obligated to lay it all out in detail and ask you please accept our apology," Hewitt said to viewers. "We were taken in." And just a few weeks ago, Lesley Stahl dared to warn about the perils of Internet news! During a panel discussion at the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention in New York, Stahl said she feels a "sense of doom" about a coming media world where journalists will have to be newsgatherer, writer, editor, and camera operator all at once. "What journalists will have to be are one-man bands," she said. "When are they going to gather information? When are they going to make that third phone call? I find that distressing, but that's the way it's heading." How dare Ms. Stahl not make that extra phone call to make sure her Iranian defector story was straight! Developing... ================