Journalist as filthy cosseted criminal

Ferret-arse and Wicked-leaks want to formalize the media tradition of lying to start wars as seen in the 80’s with Claire Sterling at the NYT then Michael Gordon and Judith Miller. Journalist as filthy criminal cosseted by the powers-that-be. The NYT article was read and appreciated by Alexander Haig and William Casey, but its arguments were dismissed by the CIA's Soviet analysts; Lincoln Gordon one of three members of a senior review panel at the CIA charged with bringing non-intelligence professional and academic review to the agency discovered comparing CIA intelligence reports and the book at Casey's request that at least some of Sterling's claims had come from stories that the CIA itself had planted in the Italian press.