BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower, Big Government Contributor Brandon Darby Sues New York Times for Defamation and Libel
by Retracto, the Correction AlpacaLast month, New York Times reporter James C. McKinley Jr. falsely reported that an FBI informant who helped to thwart a left-wing terrorist plot had actually encouraged the conspiracy. In the article “Anarchist Ties Seen in ’08 Bombing of Texas Governor’s Mansion” published February 22, 2011 online and in the print edition a day later, the Times indicated that former left-wing activist and BigGovernment.com contributor Brandon Darby urged two anarchists to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota [emphasis added]:
Yet federal agents accused two men from these circles of plotting to make firebombs and hurl them at police cars during the convention. An F.B.I informant from Austin, Brandon Darby, was traveling with the group and told the authorities of the plot, which he had encouraged.
We brought this to your attention on February 24th when we asked the Times to correct the record. We noted that according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, the assertion Darby “encouraged” the plot was patently false. On February 27th, we brought in Matthew Vadum, an expert on the circumstances surrounding the plot, to provide broader context to the Times’s smear.
Still, the error remained uncorrected.
Then, last week, a source informed BigJournalism.com that the New York Times reporter acknowledged the charge they published against Darby was in fact bogus, but still, the Times did not correct the article.
As of this writing, the false charge against Darby remains in tact.
Today, Brandon Darby filed a lawsuit against New York Times for libel and defamation. An official letter from Mr. Darby:
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We’ll be following the story as it develops on BigJournalism.com and BigGovernment.com.
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17 Comments
This is what the "Free Press" has become….
a paid off, government support group with strong ideological ties to marxist/socialist scumbags.
Attention all readers of the worthless newspaper… put them out of business by canceling your subscription.
About time the MSM is held to account for their false accusations and propaganda.
NY Times=Tabloid Propaganda Journalism.
Good Luck!
All the news that's fit to slant.
Hell yes. Hurt them where it hurts most – in the pocketbook. I hope you're able to shut this parasite cesspool rag down – in fact I'm surprised they're still in business and publishing their slanted and bogus lies. Sue the ever lovin' crap out of the New Yawk Slimes (as Mark Levine would say).
I hope he gets Millions….. but, no one reads the NYT.
Mr. Darby already had a fairly strong argument that he had been libeled even before the reporter fessed up. Once his attorney gets this admission into a written deposition, Mr. Darby may need to hire a Brink's truck to bring his punitive-damages award home…
Instead of damages he ought to force the NY Times to publish an explanation of the whole thing written by none other than Andrew Breitbart himself…..but then, I am pretty sure libel doesn't carry the death penalty in NY.
I hope this is the first of many lawsuits against the smear merchants at the NYTimes. This sounds like a slam dunk case.
Let us know when he has a war chest up and running. He's gonna need help.
Go Brandon….
ANY victory over the leftist New York Slimes, is a victory for America.
The New York Times could explain why New Yorkers are considered dumber than a day old daffodil. Americans understand New York but New York doesn't seem to understand America.
Hm. At this point the NY Times does not have much left. They secured their loan from the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim (at fourteen percent) by using the NY Times building as security. I have to wonder if Slim is going to call in the note after the judgment – the Times probably won't be able to make any more interest payments after Dardy slams them.
GOOD LUCK MR. DARBY!!!!!
I'm totally behind you Brandon:) As someone who was at the 08 convention I appreciate your efforts in helping to keep us safe
off topic :
I think Retracto is the best journalist in America.
I hope Darby wins big. It can't return his reputation, but it can punish the evil doer.
How far will a government go?
Check this http://totallyfreepress.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/...
And the former director of the National Security Agency said “By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation”.
a study by Harvard and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) points out:
From an economic standpoint, terrorism has been described to have four main effects (see, e.g., US Congress, Joint Economic Committee, 2002). First, the capital stock (human and physical) of a country is reduced as a result of terrorist attacks. Second, the terrorist threat induces higher levels of uncertainty. Third, terrorism promotes increases in counter-terrorism expenditures, drawing resources from productive sectors for use in security. Fourth, terrorism is known to affect negatively specific industries such as tourism.
The Harvard/NBER concludes:
In accordance with the predictions of the model, higher levels of terrorist risks are associated with lower levels of net foreign direct investment positions, even after controlling for other types of country risks. On average, a standard deviation increase in the terrorist risk is associated with a fall in the net foreign direct investment position of about 5 percent of GDP.
Moreover:
Terrorism has contributed to a decline in the global economy (for example, European Commission, 2001).
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