NY Times reporter who criticized Bush murdered

by **renter** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:53 am

He had recently retired. (was that his first mistake?)

by * » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:35 pm

from <a href="http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/01/thugs_kill_dc_s.php">sploid</a> (embedded links at the site) Thugs kill political scandal reporter (NYT reporter David Rosenbaum brutally killed in his ritzy DC neighbor[/i] David E. Rosenbaum spent his long newspaper career unraveling the lies and scandals of Washington, from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Samuel Alito's defense of illegally spying on Americans. The veteran reporter was attacked Friday night by two men on the street near his home in a wealthy Northwest D.C. neighborhood where crime is unknown. The men escaped in a black sedan after smashing Rosenbaum's skull. He died at Howard University Hospital on Sunday. Police and firemen arrived within minutes of being called, but the 63-year-old Rosenbaum lay bleeding on the street for another 22 minutes before an ambulance arrived. Instead of calling a nearby ambulance, dispatchers made the inexplicable choice of sending one from the other side of the city. D.C. police, meanwhile, have an explanation for their own bizarre behavior: They didn't pursue the suspects because they allegedly believed Rosenbaum had a seizure or stroke. Yet police immediately told Rosenbaum's horrified family that he had been beaten and robbed of his wallet. The family was even told on Saturday that someone tried to use one of the reporter's stolen credit cards, but no details were offered and nobody has been arrested. Stranger still, the neighbor who found Rosenbaum on the street Friday night -- Jerry Pritchett -- didn't know Rosenbaum and searched for a wallet and identification. There was none. Still, he didn't suspect foul play. Rosenbaum was found by Pritchett on Gramercy Street NW, described by the Washington Post as "a one-block street in an upscale neighborhood about a half-mile south of the Montgomery County border." Police say Rosenbaum's watch, wedding ring and portable radio were all still with him. Nothing was reportedly taken except for his wallet. The Nice Part of D.C. In a city notorious for its violent crime, Rosenbaum's exclusive neighborhood didn't have a single homicide last year. Even simple robberies are rare -- two per month -- compared to Washington's 4,000 recorded robberies in 2005. Resident Mitchell Strickler told the paper his neighbors didn't even regularly lock their houses. "There was no fear of things," Strickler said. Another Gramercy neighbor, Peter Bass, said that "everybody's comings and goings are noticed." "It's a remarkably safe neighborhood, or it feels that way ... until now," Bass said after the attack. Rosenbaum's brother Marcus, also a resident of the area, agreed. "It's a really safe neighborhood," he said. "I wouldn't think twice about walking around at 2 o'clock in the morning, and this was 9 o'clock at night." [Another journalist dies under mysterious circumstances ] The Political Elite Rosenbaum officially retired from the New York Times just weeks ago but had agreed to continue as a contributing editor. It is unknown what stories he was pursuing before his murder. He spent most of his 35 years with the Times at the Washington bureau, where he was a respected writer, reporter and editor. Rosenbaum was considered to be an especially tough reporter when it came to the shady world of government money. He was especially praised for his work unraveling the first President Bush's disastrous backtracking on the "No New Taxes" pledge and Bush Jr.'s 2003 appointment of a crooked lobbyist as head of the GOP. He had also covered Watergate, Iran-Contra, various Clinton scandals and the fake intelligence leading to the current Iraq War. Like many political reporters, he had critics on both sides of the aisle. Republicans thought he was biased; Democrats thought he was soft. Just Two Months Ago ... On November 8, there was a similarly mysterious attack in the area. Emilia DiSanto, a chief investigator on the Senate's finance committee, was prominently involved in the unraveling of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dirty deals. She drove to her suburban Virginia home across the river from the Capitol. A man was waiting in the dark. He wore black clothes, black gloves and a black hat. He beat her so savagely with a baseball bat that it took nine staples to close up her head again. He took nothing, and fled when people heard her screams. The crime was never solved. And in June, a Los Alamos whistleblower was lured to a fake meeting with informants just before he was to testify for Congress. Tommy Hook was horribly beaten by "three or four" assailants in a parking lot. Again, they focused on the head. "Mr. Hook was hospitalized in an emergency room with severe trauma to his face and head, including a fractured jaw, and a herniated disk," the Project on Government Oversight announced after the attack. "He is heavily medicated today and unable to speak to the media." Or to Congressional investigators ....

by **mxmendo** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:46 pm

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/10/AR2006011001788_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...88_pf.html</a> different story emerging now: "There were no apparent signs of major trauma to his head, police and fire officials said. One police official said that only a "small bump" was visible on his head.

by **antiaristo** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:47 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Police and firemen arrived within minutes of being called, but the 63-year-old Rosenbaum lay bleeding on the street for another 22 minutes before an ambulance arrived. Instead of calling a nearby ambulance, dispatchers made the inexplicable choice of sending one from the other side of the city.<hr></blockquote> Don't that just bring Lady Di to mind? There's a ton of assassinations going on right now. People will swallow anything they're told. My personal favourite was the last king, George VI. He died of "lung cancer". A "lung cancer" that was so sudden that it struck while the present queen was away on holiday. Cui bono?

by **antiaristo** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:45 pm

Another possibility: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The apparent murder of a NYT journalist who was going after Bush Senior and whose last article for NYT was Alito's memo in 1984 to Reagan about spying. Might explain WaPo, NYT's cowardice in publishing the truth. "The assassination of David Rosenbaum David Rosenbaum, a reporter and editor for the New York Times, died as a result of a head injury allegedly received when he was mugged in his upper-scale neighborhood in Washington. Problems with this:..." <a href="http://www.xymphora.blogspot.com/">www.xymphora.blogspot.com/</a> links in article very good. <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments...87947384619953/">www.haloscan.com/comments...384619953/</a> ="Rosenbaum's last piece for the TIMES was published on 12/24/2005, and reported that Samuel Alito had authored a 1984 memo arguing that then-President Reagan had the right to order wiretaps without warrants." <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/">select.nytimes.com/gst/</a> ab...DAB0994DD404482 "Rosenbaum was mugged to death two weeks later, as Alito's confirmation hearings are about to begin? Small world, isn't it? And full of odd coincidences.A lot of unknowns remain regarding this story. It very well may have been a "legitimate" mugging...a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then again, it may have been a "message" to the NYT." Lena David | 01.12.06 - 10:35 am | #<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/firedoglake/113708229393218012/#218860">www.haloscan.com/comments...12/#218860</a>

by **anotherdrew** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:15 pm

paybacks gotta come

by **sunny** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:34 pm

Is this "Markus" Rosenbaum? <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/27/ltm.06.html">transcripts.cnn.com/TRANS...tm.06.html</a> Qoute ________________________________________ . O'BRIEN: Joining me now from Los Angeles, Cyrus Kar and his attorney, Mark Rosenbaum, who is also legal director for the ACLU of southern California. Cyrus, you saw the military statement. That's all they're saying about this. How do you respond to that? They have a point. It is a war zone. There are insurgents that are blowing people up. CYRUS KAR, FILMMAKER JAILED IN IRAQ: Yes, well, if being deprived of your civil rights and the rights that are afforded every citizen under the U.S. Constitution is appropriate, then they're absolutely right, it was handled appropriately. And some people may at this time in our history believe that it is appropriate. They believed the Joe McCarthy hearings were appropriate. M. O'BRIEN: Well, wait a minute, though. We're talking about a person in a war zone here. You clearly knew you were getting into a risky place to be. KAR: Well, technically it wasn't a war zone. The war had been declared over. Mission had been declared accomplished. I knew I was going into a volatile area. But, you know, there are hundreds of foreign filmmakers in Iraq. In fact, the hotel that we stayed in, we were basically -- in the mornings, as we went to work, our tripods were banging against each other as we were getting out the door. So it's not like there are no foreign filmmakers in Iraq. M. O'BRIEN: Did -- but as... KAR: We had all the appropriate documents. We had proper visas. We had permission to film. Yet -- we had every right to be there. Plus, we had permission from the CPA. They told us that Iraq is a free country, you're free to come and go as you please. M. O'BRIEN: And -- but when you were stopped, you were told something different. KAR: Well, we weren't told that we weren't allowed to be there. We were just -- we were told that we were enemy combatants and that I was the next John Walker Lindh, and I'm in big, big trouble. M. O'BRIEN: Mr. Rosenbaum, let's talk about what the lawsuit might entail here. On what grounds would you be suing? MARK ROSENBAUM, JAILED FILMMAKER'S ATTORNEY: Well, the issue first was to get Cyrus released, because he was in indefinite detention. But the problem was that no one -- no one says you can't investigate when you find these devices in a cab. The problem was that Cyrus was denied access to attorneys. He was denied access to the United States embassy. He was held indefinitely. He had his head slammed against a concrete slab. He was kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for 55 days. Yet he fully cooperated with any investigation. He said, "Look, I'm a veteran of the Navy. I served for three years. Go to my place. Check me out. I'm willing to take a lie detector test." All of that took place. All that was done within seven or eight days, yet he remained for 45 days -- 55 days, being held virtually incommunicado. And that's really the problem. We don't hold people without giving them access to their most basic rights, even in a war zone, even in a volatile area like that. The investigation was completed early on, yet he was maintaining if it hadn't been for front-page stories in "The New York Times" and "Los Angeles Times," our filing a lawsuit, and the federal judge saying to the United States government, come forward, he'd still there be. M. O'BRIEN: All right. _______________________________________________ Just wondering. Anybody have a fix on that?

by **robertdreed** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:08 am

Yo, news flash: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5542974,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...74,00.html</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011201890.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01890.html</a> I imagine the new, "improved" conspiracy earbug will be to conclude that the assailant was a programmed mind-control killer, a patsy programmed to turn himself in and confess...

by **yablonsky** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:32 am

moral: if someone ever offers you a quick deal on some stolen credit cards, don't take it (not suggesting that's what happened here)..guardian and washington post as sources doesn't say much one way or the other..

by **anotherdrew** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:34 am

uh... he came in to the police to ask why his face was on TV, from that time on he was no dobt subjected to interogation. You do know they can drag a confesion from inocent people right? You know about the kid who they got to confes to his sisters killing, only to begrudgingly later catch the real killer, basicly by accident don't you? Anyway, this man was killed by shamefully incompetent emergency services and a pathetic hospital that did nothing for him. The cops and firefighters did nothing for him as he lay where they found him for 22 minutes. Then they sent him to a hospital on the other side of town which left him on a strecher in a hall way for an hour or more. They say they "thought he was a passed out drunk." As a driver, I would think you know how easy it is to tell if someone's had enough to drink to pass out.

by **sunny** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:04 pm

yo, robert. I was _____________________ "Just wondering." _____________________ And, if you will notice, I posted before it was learned the guy "walked into the station to ask why his face was on t.v." which is passing strange, btw.

by **heath7** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:40 pm

Strange how all the headlines on Google news search describe Hamlin as 'turning himself in'. Ignorant people exist, but exactly how likely is it that someone guilty of extreme mugging is going to just walk into a police station, wondering why his face is plastered all over the news? This garbage is stinking up the whole house.

by **robertdreed** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:00 pm

The trick is to stay tuned, without leaping to conclusions.

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