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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 14
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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WHY REPORTERS FEAR MENA/INSLAW/FOSTERGATE
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From xxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxxWed Feb 7 09:20:53 1996
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:10:46 GMT
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From: "Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx" <xxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx>
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To: bigred@duracef.shout.net
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Subject: Re: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 11
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Brian -
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This morning I read a post on alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater
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entitled "L.J. Davis Interview." I believe it (or the comments
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following) were attributed to you.
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Specifically:
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Note also that Mr. Davis does not tell us *why* he considers
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it a false line of inquiry. Is it perhaps because it is an area
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that gets a bit *scarey* to consider? With all respect to Mr.
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Davis, is he perhaps *afraid* to really look at it?
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Brian Francis Redman bigxc@prairienet.org "The Big C"
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If this came from you, a followup is in order (and if it's not from
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you, sorry for this e-mail :-)
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I've been a member of the press for a number of years now....
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[...]
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Recently I've been pointing a few xxxxxx colleagues to the
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Grabbe/Norman/etc. material. One of these folks - now a senior
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executive at a major publication - began calling guys like Norman and
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Rodriguez (Insight) to ascertain whether there was any credibilty to
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their reporting; he came away convinced that there is something there.
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But in the course of his discussions he also decided to be very, very
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careful in any coverage of "Whitewater" (Systematics, Mena, etc)
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because "I don't want to get sued....or killed."
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So the mechanism you describe above is certainly on the mark.
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Reporters are *afraid* to cover this material.
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I also have been corresponding with another journalist at a major
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business publication (another former colleague) on these topics.
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Here's what he wrote a few days ago:
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"Jim Norman is an excellent reporter. Personally, I find the
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conspiracy beat to be a tough one to stake out any long standing
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credibility in, and the Systematics/Inslaw/Whitewater stuff is too far
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afield for my tastes."
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So, again, I think you're quite on the mark when you say "With all
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respect to Mr. Davis, is he perhaps *afraid* to really look at it?"
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Many in the public believe reporters to be slovenly or malevolent
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because of this ongoing failure to cover "Whitewater." What they do
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not understand that reporters - like many other citizens - have their
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jobs, mortgages, families, and "credibility" to protect. And when they
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take a look at Whitewater, many of them get spooked.
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Regards
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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By the way, Norman's statements that Paul Rodriguez at Insight was
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[paraphrase] "told by an intelligence officer to back off of
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Alltel/Systematics" is *wrong.* Rodriguez said it was a friend who
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said this (not an "intelligence officer"), who simply suggested that
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he be very careful of the legalities involved; reporters *do not* like
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to be sued for libel, since their notes then become a subject of
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scrutiny. Rodriguez is not pleased with the manner in which this has
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been characterized by Norman.
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