Friday, April 8, 2011

CPI : "E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley probe."

Following my new policy not to jump to conclusions. . . You know, I may be wrong but I think that David Heath at the Center for Public Integrity just wrote a story referring to David Codrea's FOIA request documents and neglected to credit David. Surely not.

LATER: After emailing John Solomon at CPI, received this back:

-----Original Message-----
From: Solomon, John
To: georgemason1776
Cc: dcodrea ; Witkin, Gordon ; Heath, David
Sent: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 10:59 am
Subject: RE: Please correct me if I have the wrong impression.

The story has been updated to accurately reflect this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

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"The CBS Evening News with Mike Vanderboegh"

My, that has a nice ring to it.

III N TN

oldsmobile98 said...

They put his name in there, but spelled it "Cordrea"....

Janet Incompetano said...

"The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

Misspelled his name, but at least tried.

Anonymous said...

Mr Heath does acknowledge David's work in a sloppily half-hearted manner as follows, "The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

Does Mr Heath not realize that if it were not for David's FOIA request then his government source would not have so freely passed along those documents to him?

Anonymous said...

Remember that before Center for Public Integrity targeted ATF and Gunwalking, it was hot and heavy after those evil WASSER 10s flowing from Romania to the US to Mexico.

It remains to be seen how CPI will spin things going forward.

The Joyce Foundation is among CPI funders. And Joyce is about as anti-gun as they come.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_work/funders/

Patrice Stanton said...

From the Heath article:

"The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

A link, of course, would have been nice, though that's a somewhat time-consuming thing to do...

Alan W. Mullenax said...

Gee, that's a shame. Any possibility they'll start shooting each other?

Anonymous said...

Looks like they do, briefly at the bottom of paragraph 3. Recent addition, or just easy to miss? Anyone know how to check that?

Dedicated_Dad said...

I note the page says "updated..." -- no doubt to give SOMETHING resembling attribution...

"...The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source..." (emphasis mine)

Riiiiiiiight......

They're not on your RSS feeds or anything - like everyone else on the planet who's following this story.

No - THEY wait for "a government source" to read your sites, download/print the information and pass it along to them.

That makes me feel SOOOooo much better about them!!

/sarcasm

These clowns are a JOKE!