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When News Falls in the Forest

by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica - November 19, 2009 1:09 pm EDT

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On June 26, a joint ProPublica-Washington Post story included what turned out to be startling news. The Obama administration, we reported, was "strongly considering criminal charges in federal court for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and three other detainees accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.’’

This line, in a page-one story in one of America’s leading newspapers, provoked hardly a ripple. There were no impassioned … more

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Jumping the Gunman

by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica - November 12, 2009 2:11 pm EDT

The recent reporting on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, is a classic run-and-gun investigative … more

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