Reports - Truthdigger of the Week | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/category/truthdigger/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2008 2008-09-07T22:27:55+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/category/truthdigger/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Truthdigger of the Week: Edwin O. Guthman http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080907_truthdigger_of_the_week_edwin_o_guthman/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080907_truthdigger_of_the_week_edwin_o_guthman/ annenberg, ed guthman, editor, edwin o. guthman, journalist, los angeles times, mccarthy, professor, pulitzer prize, richard nixon, seatlle, veteran, world war ii, Truthdigger of the Week Guthman and Kennedy

Truthdig tips its hat this week to Edwin O. Guthman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, World War II veteran, professor and former press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy. Guthman, who died Aug. 31, was a true class act, a mentor to many and, as the Los Angeles Times noted, a top-notch editor who earned the No. 3 spot on President Richard Nixon’s enemies list for what the Times called his “aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories.” Updated

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]]> 2008-09-07T22:27:55+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week: Adrienne Kinne http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080518_truthdigger_of_the_week_adrienne_kinne/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080518_truthdigger_of_the_week_adrienne_kinne/ adrienne kinne, army, baghdad, colin powell, couso, goodman, intelligence, iraq war, palestine hotel, protsyuk, tank, translator, truthdigger of the week, whistle-blower, Truthdigger of the Week Adrienne Kinne

Truthdig tips its hat this week to former Army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne, who has defied her one-time higher-ups by speaking out about how military officials knew that a target list in April 2003 contained the name of Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel, which was shelled by a U.S. tank on April 8 even though embedded reporters were staying there. Two journalists were killed in the attack; one of them even filmed his own death.

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]]> 2008-05-18T19:01:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week:  Archbishop Desmond Tutu http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071118_truthdigger_of_the_week_desmond_tutu/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071118_truthdigger_of_the_week_desmond_tutu/ anglican church, archbishop, canterbury, cape town, death penalty, desmond tutu, foreign policy, homosexuality, south africa, Truthdigger of the Week Desmond Tutu

Truthdig tips its hat this week to South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who took the Anglican Church to task for what he called its “homophobic” attitude, declaring in a recent interview with BBC Radio 4 that, “If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.”

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]]> 2007-11-18T12:31:00+00:00 Truthdiggers of the Week: The Monks of Burma http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070928_truthdiggers_of_the_week_the_monks_of_burma/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070928_truthdiggers_of_the_week_the_monks_of_burma/ buddhist, burma, dissent, junta, military, monks, protest, revolution, rights, truthdigger, violence, Truthdigger of the Week monks marching in Burma

For decades Burma’s ruling military junta has governed through terror, determined to meet dissent with intimidation, detention and murder. It is because of the military’s particular cruelty that the story of the Buddhist monks of Burma is so compelling.

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]]> 2007-09-28T22:45:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week: Jack Goldsmith http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070908_truthdigger_of_the_week_jack_goldsmith/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070908_truthdigger_of_the_week_jack_goldsmith/ addington, ashcroft, goldsmith, gonzales, intelligence agency, office of legal counsel, olc, terror, white house, Truthdigger of the Week Goldsmith

Truthdig tips its hat this week to Jack Goldsmith, who speaks out about his experiences during his nine-month tenure as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during a crucial phase of the Bush presidency in 2003-4 in his troubling and illuminating new book, “The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.”

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]]> 2007-09-08T19:32:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week:  California Secretary of State Debra Bowen http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070804_truthdigger_of_the_week_california_secretary_of_state_debra_bowen/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070804_truthdigger_of_the_week_california_secretary_of_state_debra_bowen/ california, debra bowen, diebold, dre, election, machine, secretary of state, voting, Truthdigger of the Week bowen

Truthdig tips its hat this week to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who did her constituency proud by heading off potential voting disasters in her state by ruling out the use of Diebold and Sequoia direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems in upcoming elections, with exceptions made for disabled voters. 

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]]> 2007-08-05T00:11:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week:  Gen. William Odom http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070708_truthdigger_of_the_week_general_william_odom/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070708_truthdigger_of_the_week_general_william_odom/ impeach, odom, ptsd, withdrawal, Truthdigger of the Week odom

Truthdig tips its hat this week to William Odom, a retired three-star general who has proved his patriotism and loyalty to U.S. troops serving in Iraq by truly keeping their best interests at heart and advocating for their mental and physical well-being—as well as for their speedy and safe withdrawal from Iraq.

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]]> 2007-07-08T19:44:00+00:00 Truthdiggers of the Week:  Barton Gellman and Jo Becker http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070629_truthdiggers_of_the_week_barton_gellman_and_jo_becker/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070629_truthdiggers_of_the_week_barton_gellman_and_jo_becker/ becker, dick cheney, gellman, powell, rice, vice president, washington post, Truthdigger of the Week Cheney costume

Truthdig tips its hat this week to Washington Post reporters Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, whose four-part exposé on Vice President Dick Cheney leaves little room for doubting his sinister influence on President Bush.

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]]> 2007-06-30T04:18:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week:  Gen. Antonio M. Taguba http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070625_truthdigger_of_the_week_army_maj_gen_antonio_m_taguba/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070625_truthdigger_of_the_week_army_maj_gen_antonio_m_taguba/ abu ghraib, guantanamo, hersh, rumsfeld, taguba, torture, wolfowitz, Truthdigger of the Week taguba

Truthdig tips its hat this week to Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, whose 2004 report about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was damningly thorough and truthful—and who thus found himself contradicted and chastised by Pentagon and Bush administration officials for doing his job right.

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]]> 2007-06-25T20:14:00+00:00 Truthdigger of the Week:  Mary Tillman http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070513_truthdigger_of_the_week_mary_tillman/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070513_truthdigger_of_the_week_mary_tillman/ afghanistan, house, mary tillman, mothers day, pat tillman, Truthdigger of the Week mtillman

Truthdig honors Mary Tillman this week, on behalf of all the mothers whose children have been lost or are risking their lives at war.  Her brave search for the truth about the fate of her son and others sacrificed in the Iraq or Afghanistan war underscores the true significance of Mother’s Day.

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