[lbo-talk] The Nation & the CIA

[Joseph Wanzala]

Doug wrote: "Right. The Nation is practically edited out of Langley! You 
forgot to mention Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel's membership in the 
Council on Foreign Relations, and her father William vanden Heuvel's work 
with Bill Donovan and a bunch of CIA fronts 
<http://www.namebase.org/main4/William-J-Vanden-heuvel.html>. As anyone can 
tell by reading the mag, it's an apologist for empire, and confuses all its 
liberal readers, who otherwise might be at the vanugard of revolution! "

---- Doug, I think you overstate your 'case'. I think it is more a matter of 
the The Nation taking positions that are sometimes confluent with that of 
the CIA (and the CFR for that matter) rather than the Nation actually being 
'edited out of Langley' or 'being an apologist for empire' or anything like 
that. If there is 'confusion' anywhere, it is within the editorial board of 
the Nation - as the article I posted points out, Richard Falk, who wrote the 
foreward to Griffin's book is on the Nation's editorial board. I don't think 
it is a matter of confusion anyway, just differing viewpoints on a given 
subject. The real issue is, why does the Nation committ more energy to 
interrogating dissident views on 9-11 than it does the official view which 
has no evidentiary basis?

Joe W.