Recent Media Coverage

Since this case was filed in April 2002, there has been extensive media coverage, including a 60 Minutes feature , reported by Mike Wallace, chronicling the POWs' fight.

On Jan. 21, 2005 Slate published a piece by John Norton Moore entitled "Abuse of Trust: The POW scandal you haven't heard about."

On Feb. 15, 2005, David Savage wrote "White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs," which appeared on the front page of the LA Times. This is one of the most comprehensive pieces written to date about the case. Following this story, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR, all of which had previously covered the story, updated their audiences.

Also, on April 4, 2005, Charles Lane of the Washington Post detailed the significant issues at stake in the piece “POW Claims Bump Into Foreign Policy” on the Federal Page.

A sample of past media coverage that best captures this story is provided below.

Ex-POWs frozen out: 17 Gulf War vets get stiffed while Rummy placates Iraqis

Richard Schwartz
New York Daily News
May 13, 2004

Fairness for POWs

The Hill
May 12, 2004

POWs: The Buck Stops Here

Donatella Lorch and Debra Rosenberg
Newsweek
Nov 17, 2003

These vets' lives need reconstructing

Wayne Woodlief
The Boston Herald
Nov 13, 2003

Pay the Gulf War POWs

Editorial
Palm Beach Post
Nov 11, 2003

U.S. Opposes Money for Troops Jailed in Iraq

Philip Shenon
The New York Times
Nov 10, 2003

November 6, 2003 White House Press Briefing

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
Nov 6, 2003

American POWs Blocked From Iraqi Assets

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Fox News
Aug 15, 2003