Max Blumenthal at HuffingtonPost: Uncovering A US-Planned Coup In Haiti: The Original Version

On Sunday, the New York Times ran a lengthy investigative piece by Walt Bogdanovich and Jenny Nordberg, "Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos," which claimed to expose how the a taxpayer funded Washington non-profit with close ties to the Bush administration, the International Republican Institute, and its Haiti operative, Stanley Lucas, fomented a coup in Haiti that deposed its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In fact, the story was remarkably similar to a story I wrote nearly two years ago for Salon.com. On January 3, 2005, a New York Times staffer named Ursula Andrews emailed me, asking for help with research. I was excited that the newspaper of record was finally picking up on the story, and complied with their request. When the Times published its story, it contained no citation of my work.