There’s an interesting article at AIM.org that describes how the Dana Priest / Washington Post article that divulged sensitive security information on so-called secret CIA prisons. Apparently the article was not only damaging to American security and anti-terrorism efforts, it may also have been plagiarized.
Winning a Pulitzer Prize for a story about CIA “secret prisons” has been quite lucrative for Dana Priest of the Washington Post. She now commands $15,000 – $20,000 a lecture (“only” $7,500 for a speech in the Washington, D.C. area, where she is based) and an official “fan site” has been established in her honor to promote her work. But the article for which she won the prize not only damaged the security of the United States and endangered the safety of American citizens but appears to have been largely based on the work of London-based journalist Stephen Grey. …
Like Grey, Priest would compare the CIA “secret prisons” holding al- Qaeda terrorist operatives to the Soviet gulags that became known for holding millions of political prisoners. It was a sensational but completely misleading charge designed to smear the U.S. counterterrorism effort.
Yet the Priest article made no mention of Grey’s work.
So much for that Pullitzer, right Ms. Priest?
