http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/26/alls-not-fair-in-war
Deputy Chief of Staff to Harper caught fudging stories and trying to plant false information in the press about Ignatieff. The Conservatives have cut him loose, but I have very little doubt this sort of corrupt attitude is rife in the party from top to bottom.
Deputy Chief of Staff to Harper caught fudging stories and trying to plant false information in the press about Ignatieff. The Conservatives have cut him loose, but I have very little doubt this sort of corrupt attitude is rife in the party from top to bottom.
Three weeks ago, our vice-president for Sun News, Kory Teneycke, was contacted by the former deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Harper, Patrick Muttart. He claimed to be in possession of a report prepared by a "U.S. source", outlining the activities and whereabouts of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff in the weeks and months leading to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The report suggested that rather than being an observer from the sidelines, as he wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece after he entered Canadian politics, Ignatieff was in fact on the front lines and on the ground at a forward operating base in Kuwait, assisting U.S. State Department and American military officials in their strategy sessions. Muttart also provided a compelling electronic image of a man very closely resembling Michael Ignatieff in American military fatigues, brandishing a rifle in a picture purported to have been taken in Kuwait in December 2002.
Bad information is an occupational hazard in this business, and fortunately our in-house protocols prevented the unthinkable. But it is the ultimate source of this material that is profoundly troubling to me, my colleagues and, I think, should be of concern to all Canadians. It is my belief that this planted information was intended to first and foremost seriously damage Michael Ignatieff's campaign but in the process to damage the integrity and credibility of Sun Media and, more pointedly, that of our new television operation, Sun News....