The Washington Post Finally gets its Story Straight
On Saturday, April 29, 2006 the Washington Post issued a correction to a Walter Pincus story about the AIPAC espionage case at the insistence of IRmep.
The correction came after IRmep engaged in one month process working through the newspaper’s Ombudsman office. At first Ombudsman Deborah Howell was reluctant to issue a correction. At stake was a citation in an AIPAC espionage trial story in which reporter Walter Pincus misquoted the 1917 Espionage Act. The Act is used to prosecute persons suspected of relaying classified information which can be used to “the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign country.”
After receiving numerous examples from IRmep of how Pincus’ mistake was being propagated into other news stories trivializing AIPAC lobbyist Weissman and Rosen’s alleged criminal activities, the Washington Post finally gave in and committed to a correction of the story.
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