On 9/3/13 1:44 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18559-how-intelligence-was-twisted-to-support-an-attack-on-syria > > How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria > Tuesday, 03 September 2013 09:05 > By Gareth Porter, Truthout | News
In 1976, Gareth Porter wrote a book with George Hildebrand rejecting accounts of starvation and mass killings by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. This book, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, was widely criticized for deriving its content mostly from Khmer Rouge sources.[14][15] Testifying before Congress in May 1977, Porter said that "the notion that the leadership of Democratic Kampuchea adopted a policy of physically eliminating whole classes of people" was "a myth fostered primarily by the authors of a Readers Digest book." He said that eyewitness accounts of Khmer Rouge atrocities by refugees were hearsay and second-hand information.[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
