Reply #9: The down playing of the "leak" story, for one. [View All]

First it is reported. David Corn in the nation points out that a law has been broken - and the content of what was leaked (eg compromising an agent involved in WMDs intelligence). John Dean writes an article laying out how a law was broken (on FindLaw). No word for months.

When the story breaks it centers on the issue of the leak itself and whether or not a law was broken.

Very little coverage of the question of - was national security compromised? (It appears to have been) and on what topic (proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear)? Why did the WH not attempt to assess the damage after the leak (waits until the DOJ directive)? This is a big story - but one has to read across multiple main stream stories to get that whole story (what was leaked, the significance, the danger to national security, and the irony that what was compromised - hinders the ability to protect against WMDs falling into terrorist hands which was the main reason for going to war with Iraq (they can attack us, and give the weapons to those who want to attack us, we were told).

Today, for example, a story is on the wire about the missing Nuclear materials from Iraq (nuclear energy), that were plundered due to poor post invasion planning (we thought to protect the oil fields, but not the nuke material).

The story does not link at all to the question that begs asking. This is dangerous. Is our ability to track where the material might go through market activity compromised because of the leak (her network was somehow tied to this..... HOW)? That question is not raised, nor asked.

Not saying it is rightwing bias, but the assists to the GOP by not asking some of the obvious questions - while still harping on and raising irrelevant questions (CNN focusing on... CLINTON and his women problem)... suggests some kind of funky bias. ANd it forces more of us to have to find access to more news sources (still mostly main stream) to be able to read across stories and put them together, because so much is missing from each individual story.