Extremely educational Russ ! Grateful to you and for your writing (even if you did suggest I was a Russian troll when I wrote a comment to you about negotiations not being on the table in Ukraine basically because of the bottomless needs of the military industrial complex)!
Likewise, I too agree that it must be really awful to be treated in this way, Russ : (
although it's pretty hard to sympathise too much, given that you [Russ] go out of your way to baselessly traduce the reputations of your journalist colleagues, ie
by calling them Russia-linked without a scintilla of evidence - you said: "The Grayzone — an “independent” news agency with ties to Moscow"
If I am wrong, please provide evidence of your slander of the GrayZone
What a horrid thing to accuse other journalists of --- your hypocrisy is shameful; if you had any integrity, you would withdraw the wicked smear & apologise, but i doubt you'll do anything other than simply delete/ cover up this valid & reasonable comment ... so sad
Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone had his entry in Wikipedia defamed too. I think Matt Taibbi and many other truth tellers are horribly misrepresented on Wikipedia. Don't expect any more donations from me Jimmy Wales.
Brzuno, I agree with you on your comment. This is a wake up call for Russ to see how evil the media and automated intelligence makes the past disappear. It is no longer the norm in this country and the world. History is quickly being eliminated, so preserve your contributions, accomplishments, sources and your library on hard copy or offline because it could be gone soon. Fair play in journalism is a courtesy practiced in the past. Not anymore.
Russ Baker, you are an under appreciated national treasure. Your book is a classic and fount of truth that validates the judgment so many of us have about the heinous crimes those in power have committed. I join you in being a voice for the voiceless.
This reminds me of early criticism of Wikipedia over the incessant headline "I.F. Stone Was a Communist". The allegation was based on a recruitment effort of the KGB, which I.F. Stone refused in no uncertain terms.
I read your book years ago, but I must have checked it out of the library, because I no longer have a copy. (I'll try to find one). I was already convinced that the Bushes and Cheney were the planners of 9/11 before I read your account. I also believe that HW participated in the assassination of JFK. And I think HW was the actual president during much of Reagan's term. I'm so sorry, but not surprised, that you're being vilified on Wikipedia. But I will continue to read what you write, as I find it insightful and true.
I have life-long professional experience in aviation, along with extensive involvement in "word processing" and fonts. "Family of Secrets" rings factually true in myriad subject areas, particularly so regarding Idiot Boy Bu$sh's AWOL National Guard felony. Here follows the text of an e-mail message I sent to Russ last November (2022):
Subject: The Mysterious National Guard "Service" of Idiot Boy Bu$h - "Family of Secrets"
Russ, I am currently in the process of a slow and very methodical re-reading of your magnificent magnum opus "Family of Secrets," concurrently including all end notes. I remain dazzled by the book's breadth and depth.
On pages 458 and 459, in the chapter entitled "The Bloggers Who Ate CBS," you describe how, "[W]ithin 30 seconds of the documents appearing on television screens, one Internet user was already posting his doubts....
"Less than four hours after [the above-referenced] post came a more 'authoritative' statement of doubt from a fellow ... poster calling himself 'Buckhead' ... [who turned out to be] Harry MacDougald, an activist Republican lawyer in Atlanta and a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative law group. He played coy ..., declining to tell the reporter how he was able to create his critique so quickly, and failing to explain the basis for his expertise in the matter...."
"Buckhead"/MacDougald had posted:
Every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries.... [end MacDougald quote]
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The above assertions are at best misleading, and at worst deliberate, bald-faced lies. By the early 1970s, any number of law offices [including Federalist Society member MacDougald's] would have begun using dedicated "CPT" and other brands of "word processing" machines, the CPT featuring eight-inch floppy disks for data storage, and Xerox "Diablo" character printers employing interchangeable "daisy wheel" font inserts - enabling users to switch between and among numerous type sizes, styles and pitches (i.e., letter spacing) - including proportional spacing. (The daisy wheel printing technology itself was patented in 1960.) I know this from extensive use [in a law office] and ownership of CPT word processors, advanced study of Adobe's PostScript font technology, and design and production of my own PostScript and TrueType computer fonts - using a Macintosh program called Fontographer.
While the USAF ANG may or may not have had access to such machines in 1972, the above "Buckhead"/MacDougald pronouncement; how quickly it was posted following the 60 Minutes broadcast; and the cast of shadowy characters directly or tangentially involved in "discovering" it; smack of a pre-planned and well-orchestrated disinformation, subterfuge and smear campaign worthy of the CIA intelligence techniques and operatives you so painstakingly and devastatingly document in "Family of Secrets."
I would very much like to assess these "memos to file" myself, and wonder: Is it possible that you could direct me to online links to good-quality images of these documents?
Russ, this smear against you was bound to happen. History is being destroyed. Wikipedia maligned people's life's work and make it indisputable by blocking any corrections from the subject or others. Your reputation has not been destroyed, far from it. Wikipedia has blown up any credibility it ever had. You are in very good company.
Extremely educational Russ ! Grateful to you and for your writing (even if you did suggest I was a Russian troll when I wrote a comment to you about negotiations not being on the table in Ukraine basically because of the bottomless needs of the military industrial complex)!
Likewise, I too agree that it must be really awful to be treated in this way, Russ : (
although it's pretty hard to sympathise too much, given that you [Russ] go out of your way to baselessly traduce the reputations of your journalist colleagues, ie
by calling them Russia-linked without a scintilla of evidence - you said: "The Grayzone — an “independent” news agency with ties to Moscow"
If I am wrong, please provide evidence of your slander of the GrayZone
What a horrid thing to accuse other journalists of --- your hypocrisy is shameful; if you had any integrity, you would withdraw the wicked smear & apologise, but i doubt you'll do anything other than simply delete/ cover up this valid & reasonable comment ... so sad
Ted Branch
I stopped following whowhatwhy.org because of the reasons you mentioned.
Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone had his entry in Wikipedia defamed too. I think Matt Taibbi and many other truth tellers are horribly misrepresented on Wikipedia. Don't expect any more donations from me Jimmy Wales.
Brzuno, I agree with you on your comment. This is a wake up call for Russ to see how evil the media and automated intelligence makes the past disappear. It is no longer the norm in this country and the world. History is quickly being eliminated, so preserve your contributions, accomplishments, sources and your library on hard copy or offline because it could be gone soon. Fair play in journalism is a courtesy practiced in the past. Not anymore.
Russ Baker, you are an under appreciated national treasure. Your book is a classic and fount of truth that validates the judgment so many of us have about the heinous crimes those in power have committed. I join you in being a voice for the voiceless.
I treat "family of secrets" as a textbook and as one of my top-ten textbooks
This reminds me of early criticism of Wikipedia over the incessant headline "I.F. Stone Was a Communist". The allegation was based on a recruitment effort of the KGB, which I.F. Stone refused in no uncertain terms.
Well, the whole IF Stone Wikipedia story was discussed and written about at length years ago.
I read your book years ago, but I must have checked it out of the library, because I no longer have a copy. (I'll try to find one). I was already convinced that the Bushes and Cheney were the planners of 9/11 before I read your account. I also believe that HW participated in the assassination of JFK. And I think HW was the actual president during much of Reagan's term. I'm so sorry, but not surprised, that you're being vilified on Wikipedia. But I will continue to read what you write, as I find it insightful and true.
This article 100%
Excellent. Bravo! Don't let the Trolls win.
I have life-long professional experience in aviation, along with extensive involvement in "word processing" and fonts. "Family of Secrets" rings factually true in myriad subject areas, particularly so regarding Idiot Boy Bu$sh's AWOL National Guard felony. Here follows the text of an e-mail message I sent to Russ last November (2022):
Subject: The Mysterious National Guard "Service" of Idiot Boy Bu$h - "Family of Secrets"
Russ, I am currently in the process of a slow and very methodical re-reading of your magnificent magnum opus "Family of Secrets," concurrently including all end notes. I remain dazzled by the book's breadth and depth.
On pages 458 and 459, in the chapter entitled "The Bloggers Who Ate CBS," you describe how, "[W]ithin 30 seconds of the documents appearing on television screens, one Internet user was already posting his doubts....
"Less than four hours after [the above-referenced] post came a more 'authoritative' statement of doubt from a fellow ... poster calling himself 'Buckhead' ... [who turned out to be] Harry MacDougald, an activist Republican lawyer in Atlanta and a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative law group. He played coy ..., declining to tell the reporter how he was able to create his critique so quickly, and failing to explain the basis for his expertise in the matter...."
"Buckhead"/MacDougald had posted:
Every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries.... [end MacDougald quote]
------------------
The above assertions are at best misleading, and at worst deliberate, bald-faced lies. By the early 1970s, any number of law offices [including Federalist Society member MacDougald's] would have begun using dedicated "CPT" and other brands of "word processing" machines, the CPT featuring eight-inch floppy disks for data storage, and Xerox "Diablo" character printers employing interchangeable "daisy wheel" font inserts - enabling users to switch between and among numerous type sizes, styles and pitches (i.e., letter spacing) - including proportional spacing. (The daisy wheel printing technology itself was patented in 1960.) I know this from extensive use [in a law office] and ownership of CPT word processors, advanced study of Adobe's PostScript font technology, and design and production of my own PostScript and TrueType computer fonts - using a Macintosh program called Fontographer.
While the USAF ANG may or may not have had access to such machines in 1972, the above "Buckhead"/MacDougald pronouncement; how quickly it was posted following the 60 Minutes broadcast; and the cast of shadowy characters directly or tangentially involved in "discovering" it; smack of a pre-planned and well-orchestrated disinformation, subterfuge and smear campaign worthy of the CIA intelligence techniques and operatives you so painstakingly and devastatingly document in "Family of Secrets."
I would very much like to assess these "memos to file" myself, and wonder: Is it possible that you could direct me to online links to good-quality images of these documents?
Thank you and best regards,
MarkT
Sometime Fontmonger
Keep up the good work Russ. I've noticed the bias in Wikipedia fur certain subjects and don't rely on it for those. Your work needs to be supported.
Russ, this smear against you was bound to happen. History is being destroyed. Wikipedia maligned people's life's work and make it indisputable by blocking any corrections from the subject or others. Your reputation has not been destroyed, far from it. Wikipedia has blown up any credibility it ever had. You are in very good company.
The Bush family was involved in 9/11.