In “The Big Picture(s),†I noted the case of Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi stringer working for the Associated Press with a history of taking staged photographs of Islamic terrorists, who was detained by the US military as a security threat in April 2006.
In the last update to this story, an article that ran at Harper’s (and excerpted at Editor & Publisher)  smearing the US military was found to be authored by Scott Horton – a former partner in the law firm that represents Bilal Hussein.
Today, Bob Owens reveals that Horton was also an investigator for Hussein’s defense team through the end of 2006. That may explain why Horton was so impressed with an investigation that consists largely of Hussein’s own improbable story.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 1/4 @ 11:48 am #
Hey, if you can’t help your own friends (not to mention ideological pals), who can you help? H8r!!
Comment by Pablo on 1/4 @ 3:16 pm #
Bob Owens is turning into Mike Wallace…in a good way. He’s becoming the absolute last guy you want to see knocking on your door when you’ve been behaving badly.
Comment by Karl on 1/4 @ 3:18 pm #
Indeed.
Comment by Major John on 1/4 @ 11:06 pm #
I look forward to E&P and Harper’s supplematry disclosures!
Heh.
Comment by daleyrocks on 1/4 @ 11:49 pm #
Horton hasn’t responded to anything Owens has written on this or the Beauchump mess, no reason to expect him to now unless the heat gets turned up. He’s an important guy you know, an internationally self-proclaimed human rights expert. He doesn’t have time for blogs, except his own, which doesn’t allow comments.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 12:28 am #
I just want to share this here cause I haven’t seen it covered very much…
The Paul Steiger piece that’s linked looks like a must-read. Later, anyway. Not necessarily tonight.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 12:43 am #
Hmmm… Also, dropped at the end opf the Steiger piece is this:
So… I guess you have to go here even though you know damn well already what you’re going to learn.
And also..
Here’s more on Paul Steiger who has been the managing editor at the Wall Street Journal forever. Which, I knew it was liberal on the news side, but I hadn’t really appreciated that it was run by a liberal Soros butt-boy tool. Neat how that works.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/5 @ 12:47 am #
aw, I guess the thought of working for Rupert was too much for him.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 12:55 am #
I think he says as much here talking about about Pro Publica (which means for the public in a language the public doesn’t speak.) (also from that long WSJ piece)
So yeah, Maggie, he’s going off to do “journalism” that would have been outside the pale of the already-liberal WSJ. Oh. That’s Pulitzer I smell. I was afraid it was my new bathrobe I just got in the email today.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 12:56 am #
That should just be “mail”, really. I still use it for like bathrobes and stuff.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/5 @ 1:00 am #
phew, I was trying to figure out how that might work. Emperor’s clothing came to mind…
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 1:02 am #
Just in my head at least there’s enough here and with a bit of googling to make a for real post in the Pub or whatever but this weekend has to be all about dedicating myself to my new regimen so if anyone would want to take a stab at it I think that would be kind of a service unless I’m just retarded and all this is old news which happens a lot to me.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/5 @ 1:09 am #
I would try to prod RTO to do it, but he has drill this weekend and mostly spends his time being a jerk on yahoo!answers nowadays.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 9:37 am #
Good God. Teh NPR does a story on investigative journalism and Pro Publica and finds a conservative to make the case for it. Scary shit.
http://www.npr.org*/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17869368
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/5 @ 9:44 am #
That should just be “mailâ€Â, really. I still use it for like bathrobes and stuff.
Maybe not for long.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 9:49 am #
for some reason Feed me, Seymour is what popped into my head
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[...] at the Department of Justice, which is amusing given Horton’s own failure to disclose a major conflict of interest in his other reporting, not to mention his failure to substantiate other politically motivated [...]
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[...] it necessary to note that Horton and Harper’s both failed to disclose Horton’s major conflict of interest in his reporting on the Bilal Hussein [...]
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