Comments on: The Post Submits Its 2009 Entry for ‘Worst Investigative Reporting’

By: Chileno

Chileno — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:07:20 +0000

Embassy size may indicate large known national interests (e.g. the large Canadian embassy in DC, or the large US embassy in Iraq), but it bears no relation to those interests meant to be kept unknown. There’s a difference between overt and covert national interests. Who would draw attention to their covert ops by building a sprawling embassy compound? I’m sure many of our Cold War embasseis where covert ops were launched from were small precisely to keep as low a profile as possible.

The WaPo journalist was either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid to use such a simpleton argument to downplay this potential threat to America. Using his inane logic, we should’ve had nothing to worry about on 9/11, as there was no large army coming ashore in New York and Washington, just 19 guys on 4 separate planes.

By: locke

locke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:08:15 +0000

Come to think of it, the Soviet embassies in several Eastern block countries were not immense structures
either. Those countries had their own governments
military forces. Maybe the Post is on to something.

By: wc

wc — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:33:33 +0000

I took a Spanish class with the Iranian ambassador and his son back in the early 90’s at Universario CentroAmerica in Managua shortly after Ortega had lost the election to Chamarro. They were a jovial pair, until one day our teacher suggested that he invite our class to his house which he bragged about quite a bit. Suddenly the ambassador’s Spanish ability deteriorated, and he became ‘confused’. I am not sure if this teacher was naive or just a ball buster. I just laughed being the only American in the room and said in English that they certainly weren’t free to do any such thing.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:57:21 +0000

Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Don’t ask questions. The One has it covered. All he has to do crank up the old teleprompter to allay all fears, put on a smile and the MSM swoons, with tingles running up their legs. Iran setting up a base in Nicaraqua? Not to worry. The One has told us it’s no big deal.

By: Cindy Sue Causey

Cindy Sue Causey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:46:17 +0000

In this day and age, all it takes is one, ONE well-positioned Human being to change anything.. And that’s not talking about hierarchy, that just means right person, right place, right resources available to..

That Party of One.

As for your being in Nicaragua, impressive.. A friend and I drove to and said “hey” to the final border guard station to Nicaragua from Costa Rica’s side in the early 90’s just to be able to say we did.. Very, very somber completed bucket list item because of its ongoing (reported) history along with my memory being that of a very high presence of weaponry.. Can’t imagine the view from the country’s physical inside..

Cyber hugs from Talking Rock..

By: The Skizzerd of Waz

The Skizzerd of Waz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:15:39 +0000

Who ever said the WaPo did journalism?

By: "progressive"watch

"progressive"watch — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:15:00 +0000

This concept is nothing new with the former msm. It,including the Washington Compost,think it is a great media voice because of its size. Instead they are the voice of bafoons magnified.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:54 +0000

It’s so strange that the WaPo – presuming it pursues and publishes its stories in good faith – fails to see that Iran piggybacks on the Russian network of alliances. This is similar to the bizarre international community “see no evil” approach to the Iranian nuclear program: they seem to believe Russia, who is building their program, will veto that program. Why is there always so much public stupidity when it comes to Russia and its alliances? So much “just don’t look”?

By: Attila

Attila — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:28:56 +0000

This piece of investigative reporting will have strong competition for the worst of 2009. The WaPo investigation of their own pay-to-play salons was so bad their ombudsman had to expose it as a total lie.

At least this risible farce about small countries not posing a threat to the US can quote the Clown-in-Chief, Barack Obama, who agrees with them.

I wonder if small nuclear weapons are considered a threat by these blind fools.

By: AzB

AzB — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:57:17 +0000

The persians will get their feet burned in latin america. Jesus has many believers there. Soon America will have her hands severed, not my human hands, she will not be able to feed herself. Be prepared.. get your houses in order