Company Contractor: What Bezos' CIA Ties Mean for the Washington Post's Credibility

Ownership of WaPo by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain

by TRNN

Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the CIA.

Norman Solomon wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat" weekly column from 1992 to 2009. He is the founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of policy researchers and analysts, and was IPA's executive director from 1997 to 2010. Solomon is co-founder of the national group RootsAction.org, which now has more than 400,000 active members.