{"id":374001,"date":"2010-02-25T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23360"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:42:55","slug":"the-new-york-times-on-its-%e2%80%98kill-more-civilians%e2%80%99-op-ed-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374001","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times on Its \u2018Kill More Civilians\u2019 Op-Ed Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23361\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NYTlogo.jpg\" alt=\"Old New York Times Logo\" width=\"171\" height=\"198\" \/>Glenn Greenwald writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/02\/22\/nyt\/index.html\">Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/02\/18\/nyt\/index.html\">wrote about the mysterious Op-Ed writer, Lara M. Dadkhah<\/a>, published by the <em>New York Times<\/em>, who urged that the U.S. be less restrained about slaughtering Afghan civilians with air attacks (when Dadkhar reads things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/02\/22\/afghanistan.civilian.strike\/index.html?hpt=T2\">like this<\/a> from today \u2014 &#8220;Airstrike kills dozens in Afghanistan &#8230; Ground forces at the scene found women and children among the casualties&#8221; \u2014 she presumably thinks:  &#8220;yes, that&#8217;s exactly what we need more of&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>As I noted, beyond how deranged the argument was, virtually no information was disclosed about Dadkhah herself, who was allowed to tout her work for a &#8220;defense consulting company&#8221; without even specifying who it was.  The Hillman Foundation&#8217;s Charles Kaiser asked NYT Op-Ed Page Editor David Shipley about this strange matter and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillmanfoundation.org\/blog\/winners-and-sinners-1\">received this reply<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon: Last week, I wrote about the mysterious Op-Ed writer, Lara M. Dadkhah, published by the New York Times, who urged that the U.S. be less restrained about slaughtering Afghan civilians with air attacks (when Dadkhar reads things like this from today \u2014 &#8220;Airstrike kills dozens in Afghanistan &#8230; Ground forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}