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One Man's Whistleblower

Brian C. Ledbetter · Friday, January 11. 2008 08:51
There was quite a controversy in the blogosphere a couple of days ago over Reuters' decision to characterise an ex-CIA employee who outed other CIA spies in Cuba, thus leading to their execution, as a "whistleblower."

It would seem that these complaints have finally reached the Editorial desk. Reuters responds:

Several readers objected to the “whistle-blower” headline, making a fair point. [Ed.:—Ya think?] We subsequently change the headline to:

Ex-CIA spy who exposed agents dies in Cuba

GBU Editor


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LeCoqFou on 2008-01-11 14:35 #1
*Porter McQuarter Les coups que juste siffle plus ! L'Américain trompe. Saluer la grandeur de France vous cheval a fait face aux idiots.
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captainfish on 2008-01-13 23:05 #2
*huh?

if you are going to post in french, can you also please post in english for Brian's many english speaking readers?

as for this story, I say.... he was an (*EX*)-cia spy? wouldn't he always be a spy who formerly worked for the CIA?
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