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Jim Lobe:
Because the same thing happened during the Iran-Contra period. Knight Ridder, whose team -- investigative team was then headed by a Mexican-born reporter, Alfonso Chardy, really had put the basic elements of Iran-Contra together long before the Times and the Post felt they could write about it on a consistent basis.Now, I’m sure that the Times and the Post had a lot of the information that Alfonso Chardy and his group had at the time. But it could not be put together because of the political framework in which the Times and the Post operate.
