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DonViejo

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3. Eli Lake's reports are of dubious reliability...
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:56 AM
Jun 2014
Lake has been criticized for reporting based on faulty information and questionable sources.[6] In particular, Lake has faced criticism for failing to corroborate claims made by U.S. government sources about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq during the Iraq War and about the foreign associations of Iraqi political figures,[6][7] and for misreporting that a 2013 shutdown of U.S. embassies in Middle Eastern countries was based on the U.S. government's interception of an Al-Qaeda "conference call".[6][8][9] In addition, the objectivity of Lake's regular praise for the government of the Republic of Georgia was called into question in 2011 after it was revealed that he was a close friend of one of the country's top Washington lobbyists, and that the lobbyist had been paying for Lake's tabs at restaurants and bars.[6][10]

Regarding U.S. attempts to try Wikileaks head Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917, Lake has said: "I oppose the application of the espionage statute to Assange because the same kind of prosecution would make me a criminal too."[11][12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lake


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