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| FLA AG Moody Puts Media Companies on Notice Following Reports of Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations |
| 2023-12-05 |
| [WQCS ht to Don Surber] Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of attorneys general have issued issued a warning to media companies with possible ties to foreign terrorist organizations. Attorney General Moody and the coalition sent a letter reminding the publisher of the New York Times, the CEO of the Associated Press, the CEO and editor in chief of CNN and the president of Reuters that providing material support to terrorists and terror organizations is a crime. This follows reports that individuals hired by these outlets have troubling ties to Hamas. Read the full letter here. Attorney General Ashley Moody said, "Following the abhorrent Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, reports began to emerge of news organizations employing people embedded within Hamas and potentially with knowledge of the attack before it was carried out. I, along with 13 other attorneys general, are putting the media companies on notice: ensure that you are following federal and state law." The letter states, "If your outlet’s current hiring practices led you to give material support to terrorists, you must change these policies going forward. Otherwise, we must assume any future support of terrorist organizations by your stringers, correspondents, contractors, and similar employees is knowing behavior." The letter goes on to cite a recent bipartisan congressional letter to Reuters saying, "Those lawmakers ask several questions that should be answered, including whether Reuters had prior knowledge of the attack and whether the Reuters journalist had contact with Hamas or its agents before the attack." The attorneys general of the following states joined Attorney General Moody in sending the letter: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia Related: Ashley Moody: 2023-09-13 Border Patrol set ‘bookout' targets to bring migrant custody numbers to ‘manageable' levels amid new surge Ashley Moody: 2023-04-15 Florida sues Biden administration over crack pipe controversy: ‘Misguided, reckless policies' Ashley Moody: 2023-04-10 'Gov. Abbott launches statewide initiatives to combat fentanyl crisis |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 "Hatem All"? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-05 23:34 |
| #2 Good find, Frank G. Kudos to the fourteen attorneys general for drawing this line in the sand. I can only hope Ohio will be counted among them next time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-05 21:08 |
| #1 Honest Reporting: “On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions. “What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and the New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically. “Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali. “Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza. “Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali. “Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.” Those were not news photos. Those were souvenirs. The terrorists documented their war crimes and AP and the rest paid for a few of them. 14 state attorneys general just put the media on notice. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-12-05 09:06 |