FAIRNESS and ACCURACY in REPORTING
The New York Times:
Cables Show Delicate U.S. Dealings With Egypt’s Leaders
The Guardian:
WikiLeaks Cables Show Close U.S. Relationship With Egyptian President
The Guardian’s piece today reports:
Another cable, from March 2009, shows the U.S.’s astonishingly intimate military relationship with Egypt. Washington provides Cairo $1.3bn annually in foreign military finance (FMF) to purchase U.S. weapons and defence equipment, and the cable said. “President Mubarak and military leaders view our military assistance program as the cornerstone of our mil-mil relationship and consider the $1.3bn in annual FMF as ‘untouchable compensation’ for making and maintaining peace with Israel.
“The tangible benefits to our mil-mil relationship are clear: Egypt remains at peace with Israel, and the U.S. military enjoys priority access to the Suez canal and Egyptian airspace.”
Presumably Keller would argue that the Times has already–somewhere, at some time–mentioned U.S. military aid to Egypt, and thus didn’t need to dwell on it today.
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