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For months the AP has been using this name as a credible news source without using a quantifier like “we shall call him,” putting his name in quotes, or using any other means to identify the fact that the name they use is a pseudonym, like most reputable news publishers would. Since the AP didn’t claim that the name was a pseudonym until now, this raises more questions then it answers.

Ether the AP should produce the real man, or they should stop using that name as we all know that source doesn’t actually exist.

The AP shot themselfs in the foot on this one.

Oh, and before anyone claims that using a pseudonym for a source is a valid excuse or tactic when questions of the credibility of a reported event arise, how would you feel if the Bush administration started using pseudonyms as sources in their reporting of world events without reporting that fact that the source in question is actually a pseudonym? My guess is that you would scream bloody murder and call for impeachment.

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Tony Snow asks if Hugh’s heard “the latest” on Jamil Hussein, then says “the latest” is that Jamil Hussein is back to “non-existing.” That may be a little overstated, but really, there’s only one……

I would not be surprised to see some of those people not going out in the field, but maybe back at barracks, turning on the video camera, shooting a picture, and saying you know what? Let me tell you what’s really going on here, and why, and how I see it. That sort of stuff gets on a Youtube, or a Livelink, or any of these other things. It’s going to get out. I mean, there are many different ways now for people to get a glimpse of what’s actually happening.

Sounds like Tony’s not just hoping for Michelle/Yon/Roggio to bring more news and videos to the forefront, he is endorsing it.

Allah Pundit will soon be leaving HotAir for a job with the Associated Press.

Gregor on January 12, 2007 at 12:01 PM

Clearly Allahpundit, you are simply not rabid enough for some of your readers. Perhaps a potshot at the free jamil hussein banner was going too far.

Allah Pundit will soon be leaving HotAir for a job with the Associated Press.

Gregor on January 12, 2007 at 12:01 PM

…then he’d have to reveal himself, biography and pictures, et all…AP, you said Gregor?…maybe not, after all.

Freedom of the Press is meant to sheild them from Prior constraint, not the consequence of printing lies or Secrets.

The American Press really needs to be reigned in… somehow they have gotten the idea they are above the law.

The AP can say that this guy is Jamil, knowing that he will deny it – for good reason. That way they know that, while they can never be proven right by this state of affiars, they can’t be proven to have been lying either.

Thus, even though their stories cannot be corroborated, even though their was no source of they name they originally used, even though they did not disclose the fact that they used a psuedonym, even though they stonewalled for a long time, even though they finally produce somebody who they say was the source used with the psuedonym, and even though the person in question denies it (for ostensibly good reasons, whether true or false), taking the AP’s word on it now lets them slither away from the whole thing saying that we can’t prove beyond a doubt that they made up any of this stuff.

I’ll save my suspension of disbelief for Sunday night’s premeire of ‘24′, thank you very much.

Part 36 of a series. Continued from this post.J-DAMNConfederate Yankee And so a major Associated Press claim in Jamilgate takes an apparently fatal hit. According to Bill Costlow of CPATT (Civilian Police Assistance Training Team) in Baghdad, and as fo…

My skeptic-o-meter does not turn off that easily.

A.) Excuse to treason and

B.) Excuse to make up news.

See also: Dan Rather. Tom Brokaw.

You can be whatever you want to be!

So, how would you like to be an Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein?”

I would not be so quick to dismiss this issue even if this Captain Hussein is produced. Questions such as why didn’t he come forward before, why are other elements of reporting associated with this source not verifiable or are contradicted, and why does the one who is supposed to by Captain Hussein deny ever talking to the AP?

I believe the AP is trying to cover up their opertions because the more one examines the details the more obvious it becomes that they are more interested in publishing propaganda from the Left in their “reporting”.

I believe the MSM is perhaps the biggest single weakness the United States has, and is more interested in their own political agenda than the welfare and interests of the citizens of the United States.

I hope this expose will be only the tip of the iceberg in the attention the MSM receives. Perhaps “APgate” will bring the public’s attention to the Imperious nature of the MSM and their efforts to mold public opinion to their Left Ideology.