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Friday, November 19, 2004
And now... to reach
I just sent the following. Maybe we can scoop the big networks (and on a blog, too--hehe, wouldn't that be a hoot).
To: Greg B. Smith, reporter, NY Daily News
From: Kevin Steel
Subject: FBI documents, Gagliano story
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:43 PMI am the staff writer for the Western Standard, a newsmagazine based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (www.westernstandard.ca )
The story you wrote concerning the allegations made by Frank Lino against former Canadian cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano have created enormous interest in this country. However, all the news coverage I've seen so far gives no indication that any Canadian news agency has contacted you in an attempt to get access to the FBI documents mentioned in your story (as I note in this post on our magazine blog The Shotgun). I wonder if any Canadian news agency contacted you.
Regardless of that, I'm wondering if you can make these documents available to the Canadian public. If so, can you please fax them to me, or post them on the Internet and forward a link?
Sincerely
Kevin Steel
Western Standard[contact numbers]
P.S. I am posting this letter on our blog The Shotgun, and would like to post any reply. If you reply and would rather it be kept private, please indicate.
Posted by Kevin Steel on November 19, 2004 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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Comments
Bad form to be the first comment on your own post I suppose but what the hey, thought I would just do the follow-up here. No word back from the NY Daily News this morning yet. Looks like, at least for now, that The Globe has done a bang up job on the story, here
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041118.wxgagl1119/BNStory/Front/
and here.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20041119.GAGSIDE19/TPStory
And kudos to them. They got the documents, thank heavens, which is something of a relief. Despite my joking about a scoop, all I really wanted was for someone in Canada to get a hold of them.
We now have a year, 1992, for the Montreal meeting and corroboration that it occurred from some interesting sounding "documents filed at the provincial courthouse in Montreal." This would indicate that someone else has either spoken of that meeting, or there was some kind of surveillance going on. Seems to me that any real reporting has to zero in on that date and the source of that corroboration.
Posted by: Kevin Steel | 2004-11-19 8:21:38 AM
Bang up job except for this part:
"In the Commons yesterday, the Progressive Conservative Party asked the government when it was first made aware of the allegations involving Mr. Gagliano, the former public works minister who became Canada's ambassador to Denmark in 2002."
I'm fairly certain that the questions came up in our federal parliament and equally sure that we have some sort of new federal conservative party called something else besides the Progressive Conservative Party.
Although I understand the Globe's confusion since that's who they're starting to look like.
Posted by: Matt Hillier | 2004-11-19 9:25:57 AM
But honestly, don't most conservatives feel like they're on PCP when we hear the CPC in action.
I know I felt like banging my head against a wall when I heard, as Mark Steyn roughly put it, Stephen Harper using the weasel euphemism of the left about a women's 'right to choose'.
Posted by: Matt Hillier | 2004-11-19 9:42:03 AM
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