{"id":196991,"date":"2015-11-04T02:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-dark-truth-in-the-movie-truth\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:41:24","slug":"the-dark-truth-in-the-movie-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-dark-truth-in-the-movie-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Truth in the Movie \u2018Truth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Almost four decades after starring in \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d Robert Redford returns portraying another famous journalist in \u201cTruth.\u201d But\u00a0the\u00a0world has been turned upside down. Mainstream\u00a0media is no longer the hero exposing a corrupt president, but the\u00a0villain protecting one,\u00a0as James DiEugenio explains.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-16246\"><\/span>By James DiEugenio<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2004, CBS news producer Mary Mapes was doing what journalists are supposed to do \u2014 dig up facts that help the public understand important events and often make the powers-that-be squirm. She and Dan Rather, her colleague at the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d offspring \u201c60 Minutes II,\u201d had just exposed the U.S. military\u2019s bizarre mistreatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.<\/p>\n<p>Documented with damning photos and direct testimony, the story revealed how U.S. military guards had stripped detainees naked and subjected them to sexual humiliations and severe physical abuse. The story forced President George W. Bush to claim that he was morally outraged by these practices and to demand that the implicated soldiers be court-martialed.<\/p>\n<p>But the string that the Abu Ghraib case pulled eventually revealed that Bush and his senior advisers had authorized very similar treatment for detainees at CIA \u201cblack sites\u201d and at Guantanamo Bay prison. In that sense, the Abu Ghraib prison story was one of the most important of the Iraq War in that it exposed the secret ugliness and grotesque criminality of Bush\u2019s \u201cglobal war on terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mapes had done other compelling stories for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and its spinoff, including coverage of Karla Faye Tucker\u2019s execution. The young woman was convicted of murder, but, in prison, became a born-again Christian and asked for a commutation from then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush. But Bush was eyeing political advancement and refused to grant it, letting her execution go forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/11\/03\/the-dark-truth-in-the-movie-truth\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Almost four decades after starring in \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men,\u201d Robert Redford returns portraying another famous journalist in \u201cTruth.\u201d But\u00a0the\u00a0world has been turned upside down. Mainstream\u00a0media is no longer the hero exposing a corrupt president, but the\u00a0villain protecting one,\u00a0as James DiEugenio explains. By James DiEugenio In spring 2004, CBS news producer Mary Mapes was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}