Peter Lance
Encyclopedia
Peter Lance is an American journalist
who is a multiple Emmy Award
winner.
. 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.
, 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." 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.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
who is a multiple Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
winner.
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 MohamedAli Mohamed
Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, is a double agent who worked for both the CIA and Egyptian Islamic Jihad simultaneously, reporting on the workings of each for the benefit of the other....
. 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.
False light defamation allegation
Federal prosecutor Patrick FitzgeraldPatrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald is the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel...
, who was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York in the 1990s, threatened to sue publisher HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
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." California is a false light
False light
False light is a legal term that refers to a tort concerning privacy that is similar to the tort of defamation. The privacy laws in the United States include a non-public person's right to privacy from publicity which puts them in a false light to the public; which is balanced against the First...
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.
DUI controversy
Lance wrote a five part expose which alleged that Santa Barbara Officer Kasi Beutel had systematically falsified evidence to obtain DUI convictions. This has provoked controversy among other reasons because Lance had himself been allegedly one of the DUI defendants victimized by the alleged practices.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
Awards
- Emmy (five times) http://www.venusproject.com/books_authors/peter_lance.html
- Sevellon Brown Award from the A.P. Managing Editors Association
- Ohio State Award
External links
- Downloadable audio interview with Scott HortonScott Horton (radio host)Scott Horton is the host of for Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, FM in Austin, Texas, FM in Riverside, California and Antiwar.com, where he is also assistant editor. Horton conducts interviews with journalists, politicians, pundits, lawyers and experts on foreign policy and war-time...
- http://www.peterlance.com/
Listening
- Peter Lance on Democracy Now! program, November 29, 2006