A post below discusses David Ignatius, the WP reporter who pissed off the president of Turkey (and a lot of other people) at Davos. My piece refers to him as being of Jewish and Armenian descent. I mentioned his heritage for the same reason so many others did: He had demonstrated clear bias while moderating an Israeli/Turk debate.
Turns out he's not Jewish. That bit of misinformation crept into quite a few sites by way of Wikipedia -- and the Wikipedia entry was manipulated by disinformationatists working a fairly obvious angle. The full details are here. I did not get the information from Wikipedia, but from another source which I should have double-checked; apologies.
By the way, his father is Paul R. Ignatius, who was the Secretary of the Navy under LBJ. That little factoid may go some ways toward validating my pet theory that the younger Ignatius may have been secretly recruited into a profession other than journalism. If I were more paranoid, I could patch together a cute little theory based on the fact that Liberty attack occurred on the watch of the elder Ignatius.
2 comments:
The thing I like about your blog the most is that you often apologize, don't stop.
Like Woodward, it is interesting how people with certain backgrounds are interested in intelligence, or as you insinuate (theoretically), intelligence is interested in them. Still, being a journalist in this area doesn't mean to me that he has received compensation for services rendered from ONI or others. Do you have more here?
Joe, you see a lot of movies. Did you have a chance to see “Body of Lies” (Ignatius book) and if so what did you think?
He may not be Jewish, but an Armenian moderating anything involving Turkey, is the same priciple as as sending a Jewish person to moderate between Israel and any Arabs and/or Muslims (e.g. Dennis Ross)
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