{"id":15181,"date":"2011-02-22T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15181"},"modified":"2011-02-22T19:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:34:56","slug":"michael-calderone-u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis%e2%80%99-cia-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15181","title":{"rendered":"Michael Calderone: U.S. news outlets held back disclosing Davis\u2019 CIA ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/bloggers\/michael-calderone\">Michael Calderone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/yblog_thecutline\/ts_yblog_thecutline\/storytext\/u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis-cia-ties\/40323595\/SIG=121nu2eme\/*http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/22\/world\/asia\/22pakistan.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/yblog_thecutline\/ts_yblog_thecutline\/storytext\/u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis-cia-ties\/40323595\/SIG=133qpc5dp\/*http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/21\/AR2011022102801.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/news\/yblog_thecutline\/ts_yblog_thecutline\/storytext\/u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis-cia-ties\/40323595\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110221\/ap_on_re_us\/us_pakistain_detained_american\">Associated Press<\/a> reported Monday that Raymond Davis\u2014an American who shot two men in  Pakistan last month\u2014was working for the CIA at the time. And while  reporting that news, all three outlets revealed something else: They had  been holding back that information at the U.S. government&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>But the government dropped its request after a  British paper broke the news a day earlier. That meant the lead editors  at U.S. news organizations could go forward with their own Davis  stories. The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/yblog_thecutline\/ts_yblog_thecutline\/storytext\/u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis-cia-ties\/40323595\/SIG=12k4i5c0d\/*http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/20\/us-raymond-davis-lahore-cia?CMP=twt_gu\">reported Sunday that Davis was on assignment for the CIA<\/a> at the time of the fatal shooting, which he claims arose out of his  effort to defend himself during a robbery attempt.\u00a0 The Guardian also  revealed in the article that &#8220;a number of US media outlets&#8221; knew about  Davis&#8217; CIA ties &#8220;but have kept it under wraps at the request of the  Obama administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thecutline\/20110222\/ts_yblog_thecutline\/u-s-news-outlets-held-back-disclosing-davis-cia-ties\/\">Click here to continue reading, &#8220;U.S. news outlets held back disclosing Davis\u2019 CIA ties&#8221; by Michael Calderone<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/\">The NYT&#8217;s journalistic obedience<\/a>&#8221; by Glenn Greenwald.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Calderone The New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press reported Monday that Raymond Davis\u2014an American who shot two men in Pakistan last month\u2014was working for the CIA at the time. And while reporting that news, all three &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3WR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}