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Sunday, 02 July 2006
Lichtblau, then and now
Contributed by Bill Faith

Eric Lichtblau, Meet Your Own Story and Headline
Patterico

Eric Lichtblau’s story in the New York Times, June 22:

Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN

Eric Lichtblau today, on CNN’s Reliable Sources:

“USA Today”, the biggest circulation in the country, the lead story on their front page four days before our story ran was the terrorists know their money is being traced, and they are moving it into—outside of the banking system into unconventional means. It is by no means a secret.

(Thanks to Jim Treacher.)

Ah, you say, but the reporters don’t write the headlines. Yeah, but they write the story, don’t they? Here, courtesy of Chris Fotos, is a bullet-point list of quotes from the story saying that the program was secret:

[...]

[Read on.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 2, 2006 at 07:42 PM in Bill Faith, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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