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February 22, 2011

U.S. News Outlets Knew about CIA Links, Kept Quiet at Government Request 
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The Guardian newspaper of London first reported Raymond Davis's CIA link
on Sunday and added that many U.S. news outlets knew about his ties to
the CIA but did not report on it at the request of the U.S. government.
On Monday, the New York Times and the Washington Post confirmed the CIA
link and admitted to withholding the story. Dave Lindorff is an
investigative reporter who has been closely following the story. He is
an editor at the site This Cant Be Happening. Net.

Dave Lindorff: "The rather amazing thing about this story with Raymond
Davis is how the New York Times and some other American news
organizations hid this from the American public. They actually knew that
Davis was working for the CIA even as the President at a press
conference was saying that he was a diplomat, and they allowed that lie
to get printed, for instance, in the New York Times without a
correction, which is worse than hiding the information: it's actually
allowing the President to lie."



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