| Four Months After SDNY Press
Fight For CIA Exhibit CNN WaPo and NBC
Discover It
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 16 – New York City and
Washington are only 204 miles
apart.
But
apparently it takes four
months for news of a CIA
exhibit, released in Federal
court in lower Manhattan after
Inner City Press three times
petitioned trial judge Paul A.
Crotty for it, to reach
national security reporters in
DC.
During the February 2020 trial
of accused CIA leaker Joshua
Schulte before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Crotty, Inner City Press filed
three letters into the docket
seeking access to the exhibits
the government used. These
letters were in turn published
by USA Today's Big Cases bot,
here
and here.
After gaining
release of the exhibits, Inner
City Press published them in
full, including on Scribd and
Patreon,
wrote about them on
InnerCityPress.com,and
fielded emails and calls from
reporters around the
world.
Now amid
the COVID-19 dearth of
in-person proceedings in the
SDNY court, one of the
exhibits, a CIA internal
report, has been "discovered"
in Washington by NBC,
the Washington Post and CNN,
which gushed on June 16 that
the report was "released
today."
Well, no.
And even when
these paragons of national
security reporting, among them
Ken Dilanian of NBC, a duo
from the Washington Post
and other from CNN, Zachary
Cohen and Alex Marquardt, were
called on it - not by Inner
City Press, but a far from
empty wheel h/t
- nothing, no response.
Inner City
Press had this experience repeatedly
while reporting from inside
the United Nations, until as
it inquired into Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres' undisclosed
personal financial links with
UN bribery firm CEFC China
Energy, convicted in the SDNY,
it was roughed
up and banned
from the UN, now 714 days. And
since.
But
reporting on court
proceedings, where the trials
and telephone conferences are
public, as are the dockets?
Click
here for Inner City
Press' 1000 word mini-essay on
reporting from the SDNY during
the Coronavirus lockdown,
including on winning access to
sealed documents like on North
Korea. And watch this
site.
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