Walter Pincus

Walter Pincus of the Washington Post stated, “Just because a congressional commission in Costa Rica says something, doesn’t mean it’s true.” Ironically, through all the years that wildly false statements by U.S. officials on Central America have received prominent uncritical coverage, these same media have responded to FAIR’s complaints thusly: “When leaders of a democracy make statements, it’s news and we have to cover it. We aren’t ruling on whether it’s true or not.”