by Traprock Peace Center –
http://traprockpeace.org/npr_totenberg_oct_02_2003.html
On October 2, Nina Totenberg reported on NPR’s Morning Edition that the Justice Department granted a White House request to delay a directive to preserve its records as part of the CIA exposure scandal. Then, NPR deletes her report from its transcript of the show.
Hear the audio of her report, and see the sanitized transcript. http://traprockpeace.org/npr_totenberg_oct_02_2003.html
Why did the Justice Department delay its directive to not destroy phone and email records? Does this action support the call for independent investigation?
Why did NPR delete what was clearly the most interesting (as well as the most damaging) part of Nina Totenberg’s interview on Morning Edition?
Thanks to Robert E. Reynolds for transcribing the lost segment. Thanks to buzzflash.com for posting Reynolds’ work. Traprock discovered the NPR deletion when it followed Reynolds’ advice to purchase the transcript of the show, only to find that Totenberg’s report on the cooperation between the White House and the Justice Department had been deleted from the transcript.
Luckily, NPR had neglected to delete the report from the audio. You can hear the audio of the missing report at Traprock’s site:
http://traprockpeace.org/npr_totenberg_oct_02_2003.html
• Updates to national ‘depleted’ uranium tour. After the Oct 2nd stop in Bloomington, IN, the next stop is Oct 4 in Rapid City, SD. See the evolving itinerary and watch for Texas dates posted within a few days. Austin and Houston have confirmed with Dallas coming along. The tour continues to Washington state, Oregon, and California, with dates confirming in Missouri, Texas and New Mexico and back to Indiana.
http://traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_rokke_03.html
• The Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) — http://www.antiwarnetwork.org — has published the schedule of its national tour. CAN and Traprock are working together in bringing Doug Rokke to Austin as part of the DU Tour.
http://www.antiwarnetwork.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=41
• Glen Rangwala has updated his definitive analysis of Iraq’s proscribed weapons with references for further reading on many specific issues.
http://traprockpeace.org/iraqweapons.html
• See also links to British reaction to the failure to find WMD’s in Iraq.
http://www.traprockpeace.org
