With its non-response response to my column, the AP has made its priorities crystal clear. AP stands for Advocacy Press. Its reporting on military detentions and interrogations of enemy combatants and security detainees–and its coverage of the accompanying legislative and legal debates–cannot be trusted as fair and impartial as it lobbies aggressively for the military to subjugate its security concerns and intelligence-gathering mission in favor of what AP exec Tom Curley calls “justice.”

In the other Hussein thread I specifically accused the Associated Press of aiding and abetting, i.e., TREASON.

Today I renew the charge.

Further, I call upon the US Attorney General to open a treason investigation against the Associated Press and to convene a federal grand jury to investigate the actions of the Associated Press in using a KNOWN ASSOCIATE of aterrorist, Bilal Hussein, if not an actual terrorist himself, as a reporter/photographer, and in KNOWINGLY publishing enemy propaganda in the United States while we are at war.

I call upon the US Attorney General to convene a federal grand jury to investigate whether or not the Associated Press, its staff, or its corporate board of directors, in direct violation of 18 USC 2381, has committed the crime of TREASON by aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States during a time of war by knowingly and willfully functioning as an enemy propaganda outlet.

Al-AP now has a nose bleed, and if they do try to go after Michelle they will find themselves surrounded by their own readers who hate to be taken as fools.

I personally think that an investigation is warrented. ;o)

I assume nothing about any news agencies of any caliber any longer. I have become so disgusted, so jaded about “the news”, that I can no longer trust any of them. CBS’s Rathergate, Reutersgate, The Associated Press’ bombastic drivel, CNN’s unending “oopsy” television mistakes and lies… etcetera ad nauseum! There are too many to possibly mention them all from ALL the news wires and major news networks. Suffice it to say, the print media’s just as bad… unfit to wipe my a** with!

The bias, propoganda, and the willingness for all the news agencies to air/print just about anything feasible to make a buck and further their own agenda(s) has numbed me to just about anything any of them have to say unless they’re all reporting the same thing and it’s all unanimous.

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She is umm, very incendiary, if you ask me.

The man identified as Santoro was already dead by the time anyone working for The Associated Press was brought to see him.

Then why are the terrorists insurgents militants persons of interest being fautographed pointing their guns at a dead man.

Oh, yes. I understand. Fake but accurate.

There you can learn why AP has been asking the U.S. military to either charge or release Bilal

The fact that “detainees” will sometimes start singing like a bird has nothing to do with it, I’m sure.

As AP reported on September 17, Bilal is one of about 14,000 people held by the U.S. military as “security detainees” in a global network of overseas prisons. They have not been charged with crimes

Prisoner enemy combatants are held for the duration of the conflict, not charged with crimes, unless they have committed “war crimes”. Be careful what you wish for.

AP is insisting that the U.S. military follow accepted due process under the law and the Geneva Conventions

Me too. Be careful what you wish for.

Government officials in Iraq say the U.S. has no right to detain its citizens in this way.

We note that you don’t seem to wish to name these “officials”. Any chance that the “official” is that cheerful little guy who would have thrown Bilal into a wood chipper.

“(AP) Journalists interview and photograph are bestest buddies with murderers, child molesters, kidnappers, and, yes, even terrorists…”

There, that’s better.

Put the Hussein and the Iraq intel doc stories together, and AP’s reporting from Iraq is compromised and unreliable.

And, if AP had knowledge of Hussein’s real identity and what he was doing, then I really have to wonder if their actions might potentially be criminal.

That famous photo of flooded New Orleans school buses was shot by an AP stringer named Phil Coale. My co-author, Chris Regan, and I wanted to interview Coale about the shot–how he took it, what he thought when he saw the buses, etc. We worked with AP for about a week to get permission to interview him, but they denied on the grounds that they didn’t think we would be “fair.” Never mind the public’s right to know the background of that photo or the circumstances in which it was taken–AP simply ruled from on high that we wouldn’t get access. They behaved in a more heavyhanded way than nearly all of the American officials they routinely assail. AP joins FOIA requests to uncover wartime programs and secrets, yet denies access to outside reporters when it suits them. AP went on to bury that bus photo. It doesn’t show up in any of AP’s photo essays on Katrina. That’s an editorial judgement and it’s theirs to make, but to me does reveal something about AP’s position on Katrina. They published photos of stranded refugees, but buried the photo that showed why many of them were stranded.

With Hussein, AP is again burying a story it doesn’t want told, that story being that a local stringer in Iraq has allegedly strong ties to the insurgency and has skewed his coverage to benefit those ties. If a government agency behaved as AP has here, clamming up for months and releasing half-truth defenses, AP would be among the first to hint that the agency’s lack of openness and tranparency coupled with its dissembling suggest that the agency has something to hide. And that would be a reasonable suggestion.

When you add in Clarice Feldman’s story, linked on today’s Vent, about the Iraqi intel doc that mentions an Iraqi agent that works (or worked–we don’t know if the person is still there) for AP, the story is even bigger and more dangerous for AP. AP hasn’t even acknowledged that story, let alone explained it.

Put the Hussein and the Iraq intel doc stories together, and AP’s reporting from Iraq is compromised and unreliable.