Truthout and Jason Leopold reported on CNN today

[WilliamPitt]

CNN said, "A website that calls itself truthout.org reported late last night..."

On this story:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406Y.shtml

[annabanana]

1. CNN quoted Truthout?

Well it's about damn time! :applause:

[kpete]

3. excellant!

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Kewl!

[stevedeshazer]

4. Can we say that, "A network called CNN reported late last night..."

I'm just sayin'.

[UrbScotty]

6. Let's do it (nt)

[bleever]

8. Or, "a man who calls himself Vice-President Cheney may have lied

to federal prosecutors..."


:thumbsup: for TO!

[merbex]

11. LOL, the last 3 posts - too funny! n/t

[Hissyspit]

21. A network THAT CALLS ITSELF CNN...

The way they phrased that is so fucking patronizing. The website is truthout.org. It is truthout.org, not "the website that calls itself truthout.org."

I've had to got to truthout.org for the truth for the past four years, after CNN abandoned it.

At least they are quoting it.

[alfredo]

5. All right. Let's see if TO gets more traffic and contributors.

They need the money.

[seafan]

7. Here's another story for you, CNN:

The CIA's Pain Project

By, Democracy Now!
Posted on February 24, 2006, Printed on February 25, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/32638/

[Tuesday_Morning]

16. thanks for flagging this

Amy Goodman interviews Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A very disturbing discussion about what Americans have come to refer to as "torture light".

Dr. Donald O. Hebb of McGill University, a brilliant psychologist, had a contract from the Canadian Defense Research Board, which was a partner with the C.I.A. in this research, and he found that he could induce a state of psychosis in an individual within 48 hours. It didn't take electroshock, truth serum, beating or pain. He had student volunteers sit in a cubicle with goggles, gloves and headphones, earmuffs, so that they were cut off from their senses, denied sensory stimulation. Within 48 hours, they would suffer, first hallucinations, then ultimately breakdown. And if you look at many of those photographs, they show people with bags over their head.The photographs of the Guantánamo detainees look exactly like those student volunteers in Dr. Hebb's original cubicle.

The second major breakthrough that the C.I.A. had came here in New York City at Cornell University Medical Center, where two eminent neurologists under contract from the C.I.A. studied Soviet K.G.B. torture techniques. They found that the most effective K.G.B. technique was self-inflicted pain. You simply make somebody stand for a day or two. And as they stand, you tell them, "You're doing this to yourself. Cooperate with us, and you can sit down." As they stand, the fluids flow down to the legs, the legs swell, lesions form, they erupt, they suppurate, hallucinations start, the kidneys shut down.

Several of those photos you just showed, one of them with a man with a bag on his arm, his arms are straight in front of him, people are standing with their arms extended, that's self-inflicted pain. And the combination of those two techniques -- sensory disorientation and self-inflicted pain -- is the basis of the C.I.A.'s technique.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Will, your articles always appear to me to be

better researched and far better presented than what I see on TV news. Keep up the good work. I sincerely believe that websites like yours are the way most people will get their news in the future.

[WilliamPitt]

10. Thanks, but this one wasn't mine

Jason Leopold is doing amazing work for us.

[kpete]

12. Yeah to you and to Jason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. It's about time they started quoting some TRUTH

for a change!:toast: Here's to Truthout!:toast:

[jarnocan]

27. so true

You wonder- what is it going to take- this is all so insane! Been reading the thread about Diebold/Sproul/Choicepoint etc. It really all links together; Control is what they want, over US!

[DemReadingDU]

14. Kick for Truthout, Jason & Will!

and recommended!

[Tin Man]

15. Congratulations truthout !!

:yourock:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

17. What show and who on CNN said that?

Way to go!!

[FreedomAngel82]

18. That's great!

Congrats to Truthout!

[susu369]

19. Intrepid journalist Jason Leopold

is long overdue for some major recognition.

Keep up your hard work, Jason - it really is appreciated.

:toast:

[emulatorloo]

20. Good, because it was excellent reporting - Tell JL to GO GET EM n/t

[H2O Man]

22. That is good.

A sure sign that the truth is being heard.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Did a man named Leslie who calls himself Wolf, say that?

Who called that piece of shit a man?

[Disturbed]

24. Kudos to Truthout.org...

one of my faves.

[stop the bleeding]

25. Big big Props to truthout.org

:applause::applause::applause::applause:

[GCP]

26. So did they comment on the Leopold story at all?

Did they do any of their own fact-checking
Did they corroborate his story

Or did it go down the rat-hole of network news indifference we've all come to know and love :sarcasm: