[lbo-talk] RT: US secretly paid media to spin news against Cuban Five

[Joseph Catron]

"Five Cuban men convicted on charges of espionage over ten years ago and put
in prison may have been the victims of a smear campaign by the US
government."

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-06-03/us-secret-media-cuba.html

Of course I'm not shocked that such a thing could happen. What surprises me
is that it apparently didn't take more than a FOIA request to uncover it.
Kudos to the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five for doing the legwork
on this one, but it's enough to make me wonder what consistent, disciplined
investigation of the government - the kind of thing journalists would do, in
my fantasy land - might uncover.

Here's more media coverage, such as it is:

http://www.freethefive.org/legalFront/FOIA/PressConferencePress60210.htm

And here's the Committee's full dossier:

http://www.freethefive.org

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