WSWS on Pearl

[Bradford DeLong]

>  > I thought that the insinuations about Pearl himself on the WSWS looked
>>  pretty boilerplate and pretty nasty.  But they are very close to a more
>>  germane point, which is that lots of people, mainly on the left, have been
>>  warning for quite a while that if the intelligence services continued to
>>  compromise the status of journalists in warzones, then they could expect
>>  that at some point, all journalists would be presumed to be agents of
>>  foreign powers and treated as such.  The CIA has done more than
>>  anyone else to destroy the neutrality of journalists, and as a result, has
>to
>>  bear some of the guilt for Pearl's death.  This was a tragedy that anyone
>could have
>>  seen coming a mile off. . . .

But the evidence is not that Danny Pearl was killed because people 
thought he was a CIA agent. The evidence is that he was killed 
because he was a Jew...