With General Petraeus’ stop on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric now halfway over, it’s worth taking a moment to unpack the unchallenged, false assertions and implications he’s piled up thus far on his media tour. We decided to look into the claims he made about “oil spots” of “progress” during his interview with NBC’s David Gregory. Both claims were absolute fantasies, and the remaining journalists on Petraeus’ tour owe their viewers more rigorous skepticism than what we saw on Meet the Press.
Petraeus’ Oily Spin about Progress in Afghanistan |
| By: Derrick Crowe Friday August 20, 2010 5:00 am |
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NATO Forces in Afghanistan Can’t Deny They Killed Civilians in Sangin Anymore |
| By: Derrick Crowe Friday August 6, 2010 9:00 am |
Exclusive, on-the-ground interviews obtained by Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project confirm what NATO forces repeatedly denied: U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan killed dozens of people in the Sangin District of Helmand Province on July 23.
Before the COINdinistas Start Spinning the UN Report… |
| By: Derrick Crowe Saturday June 19, 2010 2:30 pm |
You’re going to hear a lot of crowing about the reduction in NATO-caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan during the last few months compared to the same time last year. (Read the full report here in PDF format.) This reduction took place in the context of a massive spike in overall violence and a continually degrading [...]
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