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Wanton Hypocrisy at TIMETIME Magazine has named Whistleblowers as persons of the year, listing three that would embarrass Bush administration officials, yet TIME helped to discredit whistleblowers during the Clinton years. The most notorious discrediting of a whistleblower by TIME was of Terry Reed, who had found a friendly TIME reporter to state his case of Arkansas State Trooper and Clinton bodyguard Buddy Young's effort to frame him for a crime committed by government officials, not Reed. Terry Reed had set up a machine shop in Mexico to aid in Oliver North's Nicaragua Contra effort, but found that his business was being used by his government contacts as a cover to ship cocaine into the United States. Reed attempted to extract himself from his position and found he and his wife had been placed on an FBI list as "armed and dangerous". Reed fled for his life and eventually turned himself in in a different state than Arkansas, where plans for the Mexico operation had originated. Reed was tried on federal charges, but Clinton's witness Buddy Young was apparently unfamiliar with the legal workings of a fair judicial proceeding that was federal and outside of Arkansas. He put papers into evidence that, among other things had obvious and evident date tampering and the judge quickly threw out all of the charges against both Reed and his wife, and lectured Buddy Young regarding the obvious frame-up. Reed since wrote a book documenting his training of Contra pilots at tiny Nella Arkansas and running machine shop operations to manufacture M-16 rifle trigger mechanisms, and the TIME reporter promised him that his magazine would tell Reed's story. However, higher-ups at TIME, with a Clinton childhood friend and soon to be White House official as a sitting editor, had different ideas and twisted Reeds story to make him out as a liar. Reed had had all of his ducks lined up in a row, with documenting evidence and details as explicit as aircraft tail number id's and methods used by smugglers for changing the id's to fool airport traffic controllers, dates, times and places of the Nella Contra training, and a wealth of evidence of both Contra arms and cocaine smuggling to and from South America. His "wild" assertions had been substantiated by a variety of Arkansas federal, state and local officials including Congressman and majority Whip Bill Alexander from the Nella region, Polk County Prosecutor Charles Black and Deputy Attorney General Winston Bryant. Federal IRS agent Bill Duncan and Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch had investigated over about a six year period and confirmed that some kind of government operation as well as drug smuggling had occurred there. I personally talked with Russell Welch and he told me of many reports of locals hearing automatic weapons fire in the Nella region at night and of occasionally seeing military soldiers in foreign uniforms. Welch also told me that while he was unable to 100% substantiate Reed's many assertions he could not disprove a single one, and he had become a good acquaintance of Reed and believed he was truthful. Both Welch and Duncan testified before the Congressional Kerry Commission during the 1980's. TIME Magazine, as Bill Clinton was preparing his first presidential bid, portrayed Reed as a lunatic making up wild charges, but provided no substantiation. TIME, like the other major weekly news magazines, ran stories on the "Clinton crazies" each time a video with documenting evidence was released, but never attempted to dispute any of the facts, which they could not. They instead relied entirely on general statements by Clinton and other hatchet men, or the idea that the various documented evidence was just too crazy to be believable. CNN didn't fail to ignore the bandwagon of misinformation, also doing a hatchet job on Reed in a Dec 1994 "CNN Presents" presentation. Reed, who had claimed to have flown with the personal mechanic of notorious drug smuggler Barry Seal, who had operated out of Mena Arkansas near Nella and had worked as an informant for Ollie North (all proven and documented in courts of law) was introduced to Joe, Barry's mechanic on the CNN program, whereupon Joe instantly denied ever having ever met Reed. Reed found that, similarly to TIME, CNN had prompted him for an interview to "tell his story" and then railroaded him. CNN's viewers would never learn that Joe had been the personal mechanic of the largest cocaine smuggler in the United States, that his former boss had been assassinated by the Columbian drug cartel for having informed for Ollie North, that his personal government surplus airplane had been shot down over Nicaragua in an incident which started the Iran/Contra scandal, that Joe and his Mena Arkansas based aviation company had once received federal draft indictments for money laundering, or that the federal government would have grounds to prosecute Joe with new charges if he admitted to having worked with Reed.. The idea TIME or any of the major media excepting perhaps Fox News being a watchdog of the government and a friend of whistleblowers, hasn't any credibility. -States Liberty Party |
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