Greg Palast: "Medical Alert - Washington Post Goes Blind, Misses Caging Story"

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http://www.gregpalast.com/medical-alert-washington-post-goes-blind-misses-caging-story

Medical Alert:
Washington Post Goes Blind -
Misses ‘Caging’ Story
Published May 20th, 2007 in Articles
Greg Palast replies to Froomkin

Last week, someone named “Dan Froomkin,” on the Washington Post website, huffed and puffed and tried to blow down BBC’s exposure of voter ‘caging’ - a GOP trick for challenging legitimate ballots. ‘Caging’ lists of tens of thousands of voters were secretly sent to Republican state honchos before the 2004 election by Tim Griffin, Karl Rove’s former deputy.

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So what got the Post-man’s knickers in a twist? His bleating cry is that he’s only seen one ‘caging’ list from Greg Palast and no one has explained what it really means. The Post-er boy says,

All I’ve seen since then, however, has been increasingly heated speculation. What I was hoping for then, and still hope for to this day, is that someone would do some more reporting and find out more about how the list was collected, for what purpose, and whether anything was ever done about it?

Yes, it’s true: The Washington Post has not done one lick of reporting on the matter. However, “someone” has done “more reporting”: Myself and the Beeb team. The fact that Mr. Froomkin (if that is his real name) has neither bothered to read nor view our additional material says a lot about his journalism, not ours.

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This goes to the heart of the US Attorney firings. As confirmed by my interviews with former prosecutor David Iglesias and his office (whom we first contacted two years ago), the pressure was on from the GOP to indict “fraudulent” voters to justify these wholesale attacks on the right to vote. Iglesias told me the 150 cases handed him were “bogus.”

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[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) It relates to black folks. Ergo, it's unimportant.

[Kagemusha]

2. Froomkin's one of the good guys. It's an unfortunate situation.

Greg really has been just about the only visible guy beating on this issue. That makes it tantamount to a single source story. I don't want Dan Froomkin to become less skeptical about single source stories. His skepticism is a very good asset.

Even if in this case Greg's totally on the level.