Walt Bogdanich and Glenn Silber, Two Gunshots On a Summer night. The New York Times, 23 November 2013,and FRONTLINE, 26 November 2013. “A Deputy’s Pistol, a Dead Girlfriend, a Flawed Inquiry.”
Archives for November 2013
November 20, 2013
Looking Away From Genocide
Gary Bass, Looking Away From Genocide. The New Yorker, 20 November 2013. “On March 25, 1971, the Pakistani Army launched a devastating military crackdown on restive Bengalis in what was then East Pakistan. While the slaughter in what would soon become an independent Bangladesh was underway, the C.I.A and State Department conservatively estimated that roughly two hundred thousand people had died (the official Bangladeshi death toll is three million)…. Pakistan was a Cold War ally of the United States, and Richard Nixon and his national-security advisor, Henry Kissinger, resolutely supported its military dictatorship; they refused to impose pressure on Pakistan’s generals to forestall further atrocities.”
November 18, 2013
Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping, Part 2
Scot J. Paltrow, Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping. Reuters, 18 November 2013. “Part 2, Faking It: Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste…. For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars.” (Part 1 in this three-part series was published on 2 July 2013, and Part 3 was published on 23 December 2013.)
November 16, 2013
Deadly Delays At Hospitals Undermine Newborn Screening Programs
Ellen Gabler, Deadly Delays. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 November 2013. “The nation’s newborn screening programs depend on speed and science to save babies from rare diseases. But thousands of hospitals fall short, deadly delays are ignored and failures are hidden from public view — while babies and their families suffer.”
Winner of the 2014 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting.
November 6, 2013
The A-Team Killings
Matthieu Aikins, The A-Team Killings. Rolling Stone, 6 November 2013. “Last spring [2013], the remains of 10 missing Afghan villagers were dug up outside a U.S. Special Forces base–was it a war crime or just another episode in a very dirty war?”