Reply #65: Impetus is pure rational patriotism [View All]

[EVDebs]

No SELF-RESPECTING journalist today can look themselves in the mirror and say they want to turn out just like Judy Miller, security clearance and Times seat at WH briefing rooms and all that faux prestige.

Your good name is all you got when it comes time to meet St. Peter (Jennings ?).

Yeah, that's the ticket ! Back when ABC was just 'another broadcasting company' and the CIA's own Wm Casey and his Cap Cities wheelers and dealers wanted to turn it into the CIA's Network Jennings threw a fit (from what I've heard)

From CIA, Drugs and Wall St
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/dontblink.html

"Disney owns ABC and has a huge retail, resort and entertainment empire that benefits from the "drug multiplier." Would ABC consider hurting its parent's stock value? Ronald Reagan's CIA Director, William Casey had been Chief Counsel to Cap Cities Broadcasting until 1981. His old law firm represented Cap Cities when it bought the ABC network in 1985. ABC's Peter Jennings, by the way, had been doing a series of investigative reports on the CIA drug bank (and successor to the Nugan Hand bank) Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong when the buyout was initiated. Cap Cities (not surprisingly) secured SEC approval in record time and effectively and immediately silenced Peter Jennings who had previously refused to back down from Casey's threats. Thereafter ABC was referred to as "The CIA network."

I have no doubt that the ABC "object lesson" was front and center for CNN founder Ted Turner and Time-Warner when Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and (CIA vet) John Singlaub put the pressure on in the wake of April Oliver's 1998 "dead bang accurate" Sarin gas stories connecting CIA to the killing of American defectors."

also, Jennings in the Bishop Baldwin Rewald Dillingham & Wong banking scandal from Mass Media Coverup at
http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia

"At the center of the uproar was Scott Barnes who said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC News executive David Burke. They presented no evidence to counter the charges made in the program. Nonetheless, Burke was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification” in which Peter Jennings acknowledged the CIA’s position but stood by the story. But that was not good enough. Casey called ABC Chairman Leonard H. Goldenson. The call led to three meetings between ABC officials and Stanley Sporkin, CIA general counsel. On November 21, 1984, despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer substantiate the charges, and that “We have no reason to doubt the CIA’s denial.” He presented no evidence supporting the CIA’s position. (pp. 131, 132)"

Peter at least tried to stand by the story! Bless his immortal soul. Now who else values their name in the business ?