Greg Palast: "Just send a file in a cake to the Air America wing of Guantanamo"

So you wonder why--knowing it as early as Thursday morning myself--I did not blog about this sooner? Well, first of all, it is nasty etiquette to "scoop" the regular contributors to your show! Second, I like Greg and have learned that in the blogosphere news travels faster than a dropping Twin Tower. You really want to make sure the guy with the most accurate info "goes" first coz when bloggers are wrong, people get hurt. In this case, the guy in the know was Greg:

"Yes, the rumor’s true. Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now. The film’s producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing the legal wrath of Big Brother.
It appears the complaint is about filming a sensitive national security site owned by Exxon petroleum. It seems that photographing major Bush donors is now a federal offense."

And one (or two) more things: Just 5 days ago Keith Olbermann excoriated the Prez for suggesting Al-Qaida would use the media to turn Americans against well, themselves. How many angles do you think Bush can get out of charging an American journalist, Greg Palast, with strong ties to Britain (BBC) for allegedly enabling terrorists?

According to election integrity defense attorney Paul Lehto, putting a chill on (in other words terrorizing) media journalists just now when alternative reporting elements (bloggers and citizen journalists, activists) are coming forward to directly monitor their government, is just one tactic in their strategic one-party rule campaign.

And yes, tune in to Action Point this Sunday to hear more yourself...