Sheriff under fire for Al Jazeera access to jail

[Swede]

The chairman of the Harris County Republican Party sharply criticized Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia Thursday for granting jail access to a reporter and videographer from Al Jazeera English, an English-language offshoot of the Arabic news network.

GOP Chairman Jared Woodfill invited supporters to call the sheriff's office and “voice concerns” about the decision to allow Al Jazeera English reporter Josh Rushing, a former public affairs officer for the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq, to conduct interviews for a long-form news story about treatment of the mentally ill by U.S. law enforcement.

Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt also gave an interview to the network Thursday, a police department spokesman confirmed.

“We think it's odd, at best, to have Al Jazeera going through our jails and actually interviewing folks,” Woodfill said. “Second, we don't believe our chief law enforcement officer should be promoting an organization that has been linked to Al Qaeda and other terrorist or quasi-terrorist organizations. So we thought it was important to let our folks know what was going on.”


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6601861.html

[drm604]

1. The stupid, it burns! n/t

[dipsydoodle]

2. I'd like to see him prove

that Al Jazeera English is an organization that has been linked to Al Qaeda and other terrorist or quasi-terrorist organizations.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I like the most recommended comment

Comment by willrogerstx:

"A Navy Seal who did a tour in Iraq told me that the only station that really told the truth about Iraq was Al Jazeera.
Nuff said."

#2 is pretty good too.

Comment by radrich:

"Have you ever watched Al Jazera? I bet known(sic) of them have but what they see on Fox. I have watched ALJaazera has more information about the world then most of our main stream media here has ever had. If you read the article Woodfill calls all of the radio talk shows and probally alerted the tea party groups. Only to find out that he had the wrong number. I am not big on Garcia but he was in the right. Also thanks AJ for calling out the Bush administration for being idiots"

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Good for them! :thumbsup: