why isn't anyone else reporting this?

and by anyone else, i mean the msm of course

click on the link below and read the WHOLE article. it's well worth it
Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths

By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.

In his address to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy organization in Washington, Cheney said that the techniques the Bush administration approved, including waterboarding — simulated drowning that's considered a form of torture — forced nakedness and sleep deprivation, were "legal" and produced information that "prevented the violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people."

He quoted the Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, as saying that the information gave U.S. officials a "deeper understanding of the al Qaida organization that was attacking this country."..........

Shatha al Awsy, Zaineb Obeid, Huda Ahmed, Ban Adil Sarhan, Alaa Majeed and Sahar Issa

i didn't know their names either. consider how brave they are. consider their circumstances. consider all the journalists (not just women) who are doing their jobs (and by journalists i mean REAL ones as opposed to the robert novaks and the like)

Women in McClatchy Baghdad bureau receive courage award
NEW YORK — Six Iraqi women who've worked in the Knight Ridder and McClatchy Baghdad bureau received the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award Tuesday.
At a luncheon at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, the foundation also honored Lydia Cacho, a Mexican journalist who exposed a pedophilia ring in the resort city of Cancun and subsequently was seized by police, apparently acting on the orders of a state governor, and Serkalem Fasil of Ethiopia, who was jailed for her criticism of the Ethiopian government, a U.S. ally in the battle against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia.
The Foundation presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Peta Thornycroft, 62. She's worked as a journalist in South Africa and Zimbabwe for more than three decades, and she renounced her British citizenship and became a citizen of Zimbabwe in 2001 so that she could continue to report under country's curiously named Freedom of Information and Right to Privacy Bill..........

the dead* and injured* count from iraq yesterday

see if you can get an accurate number

Round-up of daily violence, Monday 16 July 2007

By Mohammed al Dulaimy McClatchy newspapers

The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.
Baghdad - Around 4 a.m. an IED explosion targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Bub Al Sham area. 5 soldiers were killed and one was injured. - Around 7 a.m. mortar shells landed in Abu Disheer. 2 residents were killed and 6 were injured. - Around 10 a.m. a parked car bomb detonated in Al Arasat area. 1 civilian was killed and 3 were injured. - Around 11 a.m. a mortar shell landed in the vicinity of Babil hotel. 2 civilians were injured. - Around 4 p.m. a suicide car bomb targeted national Iraqi police in Al Harthiyah. 2 killed (one of the two was civilian) and 12 were injured (8 of them were civilians). - A kidnapped man was released by his abductors. The man drove back to his family in New Baghdad, district 702. As soon as he entered the house the car exploded killing 2 and injuring 5 of the family. The man was killed. - A mortar shell targeted Al Sadr police station. One vehicle was damaged. - An American helicopter killed on man in Sheikh Omar area today, Iraqi police said. - Iraqi police found 25 dead bodies throughout the capital. 2 in Shuala, 3 in Saidiyah, 1 in Ealam, 1 in Qadisiyah, 2 in Shurta Rabiaa, 6 in Amil, 4 in Doura, 3 in Bayaa, 1 in Jisr Diyala, 1 in Sleikh, 1 in Sadr. Kirkuk - Series of bombings in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk killed 70 and injured 160, Kirkuk hospital official said today. The four bombings in different areas of the city took place around midday. A suicide truck bomb targeted the head quarter of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) causing severe damages to the building and the surrounding building that most of it follow the party. The second explosion was a parked car bomb in the busy bus station in the city and the market. The third explosion was a suicide car bomb targeted Iraqi police patrol killing one police officer and injuring 4 other policemen. The fourth explosion was a controlled explosion when the troops suspected a parked car to be a car bomb, causing no human casualties. - An IED explosion targeted a police patrol in Al Hawija west of Kirkuk yesterday night. One police was injured. ......... (oh there's more - click on the link for the rest)