The problem with Boehlert is that he’s repeating the same mistakes made by the far left during the 1930′s. I use the word “mistakes” to be nice about a situation that was really fraud from the start. For example, consider the New York Times and its Stalin-paid hack journalist Walter Duranty. Duranty and his Sulzberger mentors insisted that refugee reports of deliberate starvation of Ukrainian peasants (called the Holodomar by the Ukrainians) by the Stalin regime were nonsense. The Boehlerts of that time believed this crock, and, as a result, the Sulzberger family agenda for getting the Roosevelt Administration to extend diplomatic recognition to the Stalin regime was successful. For those true believers on the far left only Kruschev’s revelations about the truth of the Holodomar gave some of them a way out of their deliberate blindness to this crime against humanity. Even today, Pinch Sulzberger refuses to relinquish Duranty’s Pulitzer prize for telling some of the biggest journalist political whoppers on record.

Information didn’t flow as fast in those days, but the internet of today is the corrosive force that pierces through the credibility of modern-day Durantys like “Jamail Hussein” (or whatever his real name is) and their arrogant media backers like Kathleen Carroll. For some who have been following this story the only believable evidence that AP’s Jamail Hussein actually exists may be a certified copy of his photograph, a certified copy of his paycheck and a far better story of how those 60 or so stories attributed to him originated than exists today. Even then, that probably won’t be enough to convince the hardcore skeptics.

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I still have doubts about `Captain` Jamil Hussein as I cannot quite believe that any government, even as disorganized as the fledgling Iraqi one, does not know who is on its public payroll in less than a few hours. Even using paper records: President John Adams could have found such an officer’s records in not much more time than it took a messenger to go to the War Office and return, and though it might have taken a few days for him to confirm the existence of a police officer in Durham NC the later advent of telegraph/telephone/radio/etc. would have reduced the time span to hours. At the least, there should have been several possibilities with only a middle name to distinguish between their records – not a total lack of information.

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