Truth another casualty of shootings

While listening to Hillary Clinton's speech on Pakistan and Afghanistan at the Asia Society in New York on February 18, I wanted to ask her if Raymond Davis, the former US Special Forces soldier, held in Lahore for shooting and killing two Pakistanis, was a CIA agent as one blogger reported.

Clinton left quickly that afternoon without taking any questions. Two days later, the Guardian newspaper in Britain reported Davis' CIA identity. It also revealed that major US news organizations deliberately withheld the information from readers at the request of the Obama administration. The Guardian, which also received the request, chose to disobey.

The following day, both the New York Times and Washington Post confirmed the Guardian's report. However, neither of them showed any regret for misleading readers in their weeks of reporting on the issue, since the shooting on Jan 27.