See No Evil: What Bush
Didn't (Want To)Know About 9/11
(excerpted from
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,"
by Greg Palast
as reprinted by TomPaine.com
March 3, 2003

"Did Our President Spike The Investigation Of Bin Laden?"

On my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, U.S. reporters are simply too afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions that could kill careers: "It's an obscene comparison, but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented.

In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck," Dan Rather said. Without his makeup, Rather looked drawn, old and defeated in confessing that he too had given in. "It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often."

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