Although it does not rise to the level of deceit and incompetence that riddled the NY Times under Raines, the Washington Times had their own little crisis to deal with:
A letter to the editor of The Washington Times, purported to be from a senior U.S. diplomat with scathing criticism of the Foreign Service for lack of loyalty to the Bush administration, was exposed yesterday as a forgery.
Wesley Pruden, the editor in chief of The Times, said the newspaper learned “from the highest level at the State Department” that the letter was a hoax and the newspaper fully accepts “as true that the ambassador was not the author of this letter.”
Stephan M. Minikes, ambassador to the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, writes in an authentic letter to The Times, published in full this morning on Page A18, that the forgery was a “complete and utter fabrication. It was not written by or for me and it expressed views that are diametrically opposite to the views I hold.
“The fact is that never in my long career have I worked with a more dedicated group of professionals than those I have encountered in the Department of State led by Secretary Powell
Barney Gumble
Pruden carries more than enough of his own baggage. Google his dad. Wes. Jr. is an acorn that didn’t fall far from the tree.
Moe Lane
Gee, Barney, even after only an hour you should have been able to come up with something better than vague allegations* about this guy’s dad. Not feeling well, are we?
Moe
*And with not even the courtesy of a preset google link. Tsk, tsk.
Dean
I like how the Left has now decided that sins of the father haunt the sons.
Prescott Bush, Wesley Pruden.
Now, what happens, though, to the likes of the Kennedys? I mean, Joe, Sr. was an anti-Semite (I’d assume that’s still a bad thing), anti-British in World War II, and anti-intervention, regularly forecasting a Nazi victory to dissuade FDR from helping the UK.
Does this spill over, at all, onto Teddy and co?
Just curious, is all….