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Factual Plagiarism: The AP, NY Times, Washington Post & Washington Times Stole Their Work from Narco News This Week
The News Organizations Used an “Internal ICE Memorandum” on the Reyes Kidnapping Without Citing the Source


By Al Giordano
Publisher, Narco News
June 29, 2008

On Monday, June 23, Narco News broke the story of the kidnapping and subsequent release, in Mexico, of a relative of US Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas). In our ongoing coverage, on June 25, this newspaper published an internal memorandum by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The memo was posted onto the Internet by Narco News. It stated:


On June 22, 2008, ICE Assistant Attache Juarez reported that kidnapping victim Erika Posselt was recovered by Mexican officials. Ms. Posselt was immediately transported to the El Paso Port of Entry (POE) and paroled into the United States for security reasons.

In the section titled “BACKGROUND,” the ICE memorandum stated:


On June 19, 2008, the Assistant Attache Juarez was contacted by a Congressional Aide (CA) for Congressman Silvetre Reyes of the 16th District of Texas. Congressman Reyes’ aid advised that Erika Posselt, a Mexican national and relative of Congressman Reyes’ wife, had been kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Subsequently, the ICE Assistant Attache Juarez requested and received the full assistance of the ICT SAC El Paso office, and coordinated a meeting in El Paso, TX with the Chihuahua State Police to recover the kidnapped victim.

Read the entire memo here, for all the details.

At 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25, El Paso, Texas, Associated Press correspondent, Alicia Caldwell sent the following email to Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue54/article3147.html

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