Speaking of targeting Journalist

[Ichingcarpenter]

Old story but never forget.


Iraq: Wikileaks video of US military killing journalists

A senior U.S. official is confirming authenticity of this video.

Wikileaks claims to have obtained and decrypted video that shows US occupying forces in an Apache helicopter intentionally firing on a dozen civilians in Baghdad, including journalists working for the Reuters news organization: 22-year-old Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40.

The video is accompanied by audio of the pilots' radio dialogue.


Reuters has been attempting to obtain the video under Freedom of Information Act requests since the incident occurred in July, 2007, but the Pentagon blocked all requests.

. Wikileaks director Julian Assange said Wikileaks had to break military encryption on the file to view it, and will not reveal how or from whom the file was obtained.

The transcript (and audio) seem to show the air crew lying about encountering a firefight. When they finish shooting, they laugh at the dead.




http://boingboing.net/2010/04/05/wikileaks-video-of-u.html



Oh and Time magazine's
neocon writer just this week




This is what a whistle blower revealed.

[GeorgeGist]

1. So there's no confusion ...

this is what Grunwald looks like:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. A "mainstream" reporter calls for the murder of a public figure,

A "mainstream" reporter calls for the murder of a public figure, but somehow his "journalist" bona fides are intact
BY DAVID SIROTA

it is yet more proof of the growing ranks of Journalists Against Journalism Club. Yes, here we have a reporter expressing excitement at the prospect of the government executing the publisher of information that became the basis for some of the most important journalism in the last decade.


Likewise, it is yet more proof that the nonchalant bloodlust that pervades the National Security State also exists inside the establishment media that is supposed to be objectively covering that National Security State. Indeed, even after deleting his tweet, Grunwald was unrepentant about such bloodlust, saying that he wasn’t sorry for effectively endorsing extra-judicial assassination, but merely for the fact that his tweet “gives Assange supporters a nice safe persecution complex to hide in.”


But, then, journalists hating on journalism and political reporters worshiping state-sponsored violence is no big reveal anymore. In that sense, Grunwald’s morbid fantasy is notable primarily because it summarized such realities in such uncharacteristically clear terms.


Wikileaks and Greenwald hold pro-transparency opinions. Because those kind of opinions do not serve the corporate and government establishment, those establishments work to marginalize them by treating them and those connected to them as non-journalists, activists or – most recently in the case of Greenwald’s spouse – as terrorism suspects.


http://www.salon.com/2013/08/20/grunwald_vs_greenwald_whos_the_activist_journalist_now/

[Little Star]

4. +1

[HooptieWagon]

2. Let me guess...the pilots were promoted,

while the Administration's lawyers want 60 years prison term for Manning.