There is a heated back and forth between this diary
and this diary
related to an LA times report about another FBI interview of Hillary Clinton.
The second diarist said this in the comments about the substance of the other diary….
Yup. It’s a Daily Kos version of Fox’s “some people say.”
(bolded for emphasis)
I thought to myself, Hmm…
maybe this is another Right Wing/ Fox / conspiracy theory
So I decided to actually look into the author of the LA Times Story
Is he a Right Wing Nut Job?
Well look here and decide for yourself
Del Quentin Wilber is an American journalist who writes for Bloomberg News. He covers the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Before joining Bloomberg in January 2014, he worked for the Washington Post, where he wrote extensively about Guantanamo Bay,[1] former Sen. Ted Stevens,[2] the D.C. government, and Iraq war contractor Blackwater Worldwide.[3]
He was a reporter at the Post from 2004 - 2013. Before that, he was a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where his reporting on wrongdoing by Baltimore Police Chief Ed Norris led to Norris' 2003 conviction on federal charges and his six-month incarceration.[4] Wilber's work uncovering the scandal earned him the 2004 Al Nakkula Award for excellence in police reporting.[5]
Wilber is the author of the best-selling Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (March 15, 2011, Henry Holt),[6] and he is at work on a second book about a squad of suburban homicide detectives. Wilber is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Yes this is the guy that helped report on the scandals that eventually forced
Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska out of office,
As well as reporting on the corruption in the Baltimore Police Department (we know that they haven’t gotten any issues)
which caused Baltimore Police commissioner Ed Norris to go to Prison
I’m sure any reporting on Blackwater and private security contracts must And he wrote, reports about the lock up of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
a federal judge reviewed the case and found the government’s evidence too weak to justify Hatim’s confinement. The judge ordered the detainee’s release, ruling he could not rely on Hatim’s statements because they had been coerced. He also found that the government’s informer was “profoundly unreliable.”
The case is more the rule than the exception. Federal judges, acting under a 2008 Supreme Court ruling granting Guantánamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their confinements, have ordered the government to free 32 prisoners and backed the detention of nine others.
As an independent journalist, on an obviously a lesser level, I have had people give me information they trust me to fairly report. That trust does not come overnight. It comes from years of being a trusted news source.
Instead of Pie fighting against bobswern’s diary you might want to ask is the author of the report Del Quentin Wilber a Right Wing propagandist?
if so are you suggesting that the places that have hired him for his Reporting, such as the Washington Post, or the LA Times, or Bloomberg News part of a vast conspiracy Right Wing News outlets?
And surely not if he reported on this
Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon in federal court here to charges they unleashed an unprovoked salvo of bullets and grenades in a busy Baghdad square in 2007, killing at least 14 Iraqi civilians and injuring 20 others.
You might want to rethink your approach of a Right Wing/ Fox agenda
if that’s your best argument in this case.