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On the release of CIA agent Raymond Davis, who was held in Pakistan on charges of killing two Pakistani men on a street in Lahore, the Times explains the reaction (3/17/11) The Davis episode was particularly sensitive because of the resentment among Pakistanis who believe that a growing American security contingent roams the country with […]
New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane (2/27/11) offers a justification that makes very little sense for his paper’s concealing the fact that an American arrested in Pakistan worked for the CIA. The Times, Brisbane wrote, could not “take the risk that reporting the CIA connection would, as warned, lead to Mr. Davis’s death.” Davis […]
Yesterday the Guardian reported that Raymond Davis, the American held in Pakistan on charges of killing two men last month in Lahore, was working for the CIA. The Davis case has received sustained coverage in the U.S. media and is the subject of intense U.S lobbying. All the while U.S. officials referred to Davis as […]
