Peter Lance
Peter Lance is an American journalist who is a multiple Emmy Award winner.
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[edit] 9/11
Peter Lance is the author of 1000 Years for Revenge (2003) which is a broad survey of Al-Qaida operations in the US prior to 9/11 and Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror (2004). The later book concludes that Al-Qaida showed signs of launching the impending 9/11 attacks in 1995, but were able to evade arrest by exploiting the poor relations between the FBI and CIA and problems within their respective infrastructures. His newest book, entitled Triple Cross, and published in 2006, covers the Al Qaeda operative Ali Mohamed. Lance says that it was embarrassment and ass-covering on the part of justice and Pentagon officials over the mishandling of Ali Mohamed that led first to a conspiracy of silence and then to a conspiracy to cover up their incompetence and deception.[1]
[edit] False light defamation allegation
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York in the 1990s, threatened to sue publisher HarperCollins over the new edition they published in June 2009 if it defamed him or cast him in a false light, calling the book "a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth."[2] California is a false light defamation state which means that it is possible to sue for libel under certain circumstances not permitted in other states, however the publisher is located in New York.
[edit] DUI controversy
Lance wrote a five part expose which alleged that Santa Barbara Officer Kasi Beutel had systematically falsified evidence to obtain DUI convictions.[3] This has provoked controversy among other reasons because Lance had himself been allegedly one of the DUI defendants victimized by the alleged practices. [4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ O'Connor, Rory (Nov. 16, 2006). "Joining the dots of ineptitude". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/nov/16/the911conspiracyofincompet. Retrieved June 1, 2009.
- ^ Mike Robinson, Fitzgerald threatens to sue publisher over book Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, June 8, 2009
- ^ Rainey, James (July 2, 2011). "On the Media: A DUI cop exposé — by a DUI suspect". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia-20110702,0,7977144.column.
- ^ http://www.independent.com/news/2011/jun/30/putting-ow-back-bow-wow/
[edit] Books
- Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror ISBN 0-06-054355-8
- 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—The Untold Story ISBN 0-06-059725-9
- Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Chief Security Adviser Penetrated the CIA, the FBI, and the Green Berets ISBN 0-06-088688-9
- Stingray : The Lethal Tactics of the Sole Survivor ISBN 1-885840-03-9
- First Degree Burn ISBN 0-425-15698-2
[edit] Awards
- Emmy (five times) [1]
- Sevellon Brown Award from the A.P. Managing Editors Association
- Ohio State Award
[edit] External links
- Downloadable audio interview with Scott Horton
- http://www.peterlance.com/
- Peter Lance at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Listening
- Peter Lance on Democracy Now! program, November 29, 2006
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