'US orders media to lie over CIA killer'
Feb 23, 2011 9
A US investigative journalist says Washington had ordered the American media to lie about the identity of the CIA agent, Raymond Davis, who has killed two Pakistanis.
"The New York Times has admitted that they knew this and withheld the information at the request of the Obama administration from some time maybe as far back as Davis's arrest," David Lindorff, author and investigative journalist from Philadelphia, told Press TV's US Desk on Tuesday.
Raymond Davis, a former United States Special Forces soldier, shot and killed two Pakistani nationals in Lahore on January 27 in what he said was a robbery attempt.
The case has strained ties between Islamabad and Washington.
Hundreds of Pakistanis have staged street protests against the incident in various cities of the South Asian country, demanding that Davis be prosecuted.
A Pakistani intelligence official said the American was an undercover contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency.
However, Washington insists that Davis, who says he acted in self-defense, is a member of the United States embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, who enjoys diplomatic immunity and should be released immediately.
"It is really outrageous that these major US news organizations starting with the New York Times not only withheld the information from the Americans but also allowed the president of the United States and the secretary of state, worst of all the president, to publicly state that this guy was a diplomat and worked at the Islamabad embassy, both of which were totally lies," Lindorff said.
He criticized the US news organizations for broadcasting "those lies" and in effect "totally crossing the line from being news organizations to being propaganda organs."
"Now Obama's credibility is completely shot, the secretary of state's credibility is completely shot, and nobody anywhere in the world would believe anything they say about US activities within countries and its adherence to diplomatic protocol and standards," Lindorff concluded.
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'CIA agent Davis linked to Taliban'
Feb 20, 2011
"The documents, photographs and the evidence that has come out from Davis' sofa almost confirms his links with Taliban terrorism.the attacks on ISI and the security establishment as well as the drone attacks," Pakistani defense analyst and security consultant Zaid Hamid said in an interview with Press TV's US Desk on Saturday.
Hamid added that there is evidence confirming Davis has been a US undercover operative in Pakistan.
"With this kind of evidence the issue is not just the assassination of those two boys on the streets of Lahore but it is an indication of a much larger network of CIA espionage and sabotage inside Pakistan," he said.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama urged Pakistan to free the US official saying he enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention.
However, under public pressure, Lahore High Court adjourned a decision on whether Davis had diplomatic immunity.
The court gave the foreign ministry more time to answer on whether full diplomatic status was held by Davis, who has been remanded in custody since his arrest following the incident on January 27.
Pakistani police have pressed charges of espionage against Davis, saying he is an employee of the notorious US security firm Xe/Blackwater, working in Pakistan under the cover of the so-called war on terror.
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