Will Bush nominate Isikoff for Presidential Medal of Freedom?
by eriposte UPDATE: Note to self. Always check Daily Kos first before writing about such matters. Susan Hu does a vastly better job on this incident than I. Go check it out, because there’s a lot more to this story, including the fact that there are many other independent reports of similar allegations. UPDATE II: After reading Susan’s post, read Steve’s comments to this post showing the eerie similarities to “Memogate”. Newsweek links are here and here. — So, Newsweek is backing off the story about the alleged Koran-flushing incident. According to CNN (bold text is my emphasis): …Newsweek magazine backed away Sunday from a report that U.S. interrogators desecrated copies of the Quran while questioning prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base — an account blamed for sparking violent riots in Afghanistan. … “So he called a longtime reliable source, a senior U.S. government official who was knowledgeable about the matter. “The source told Isikoff that the [investigators’] report
