Not much misses the eagle eye of Lucianne Goldberg, plain "Lucianne" or "Lucy" to a generation of up and coming Internet journalists. Having made her mark as a journalist, literary agent, radio presenter and as chief catalyst behind the one-woman run Lucianne.com, the New York resident stands down to no one.
The woman who once caught slippery fish Bill Clinton in her net by helping Linda Tripp tape-record Clinton's mistress Monica Lewinsky, lands a lot of fish swimming in foreign ponds. Thanks to the perspicacious Lucianne comes the Dana Priest-William Goodfellow-Center for International Policy (CIP) connection.
Washington Post National Security Correspondent Dana Priest has spent the previous eight years writing about the U.S. military. according to an Internet biography, "she was one of the first reporters on the ground for the invasion of Panama (1989), reported from Iraq in late 1990 just before the war began, and covered the 1999 Kosovo war from air bases in Europe."
Submitting her stories on the CIa and the War on Terrorism, Priest won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in the beat reporting category.
Priest is the wife of William Goodfellow. Goodfellow is the Executive Director of the CIP.
CIP maintains a pro-Castro, anti-america agenda.
Before 9/11, the organization's main claim to fame was as a Fidel Castro's "think tank" on american soil. The lion's share of its million-dollar budget was spent on lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.
Post 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, conducts "war room" duty under The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main mission is to get the anti-Bush policy message out to the media and to provide guests for the talk show circuit. CIP's IPIP is a sort of a Grand Central for the Cindy Sheehans of the day.
"a featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administration's most vocal enemies.
"So Dana Priest's husband runs an operation that gets Joe Wilson speaking gigs," points out the cheeky Sweetness&Light website.
Who would expect a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist to be hanging out with the likes of Joe Wilson?
But that's exactly what Priest was doing in October of 2003 when she shared the stage with Wilson behind the CIP banner.
Priest and Wilson were a duo at the "Cowboy Diplomacy" conference on National Security, held in the US Senate.
In a photo in the CIP Winter 2003-2004 newsletter, Priest is shown depicted with Mel Goodman, CIP's National Security Director.
Balance and accuracy are the hallmarks of respected journalism. at best, Priest, was moonlighting in biased territory three years before she picked up a Pulitzer Prize.
Then again in a politically era, United Nations Secretary General Kofi annan, whose UN peacekeeping watch included the Rwanda massacre was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Meanwhile, happy fishing to Lucianne.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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