| − | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". [http://www.namebase.org/news02.html] By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the politcal sphere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former JFK Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170] when the two worked together for ''ABC News'' in the 1980s, was asked to sanitize Brandt's criticism of PRA by it's Senior Researcher, [[Chip Berlet]] [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352], from Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribtution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes] which at the time would have denied using Berlet as a source for any article in Wikipedia on the basis of Berlet having been published in "extremist publications". Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a false and malicious guilt by association smear -- aligned with Holocaust deniers. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could no longer be cited as a critic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of him being aligned with extremists. | + | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". [http://www.namebase.org/news02.html] By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the politcal sphere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former JFK Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170] when the two worked together for ''ABC News'' in the 1980s, was asked by PRA's Senior Researcher [[Chip Berlet]] [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352] to sanitize Brandt's criticism of Berlet and PRA from all of Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribtution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes] which at the time would have denied using Berlet as a source for any article in Wikipedia on the basis of Berlet having been published in "extremist publications". Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a false and malicious guilt by association smear -- aligned with Holocaust deniers. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could no longer be cited as a critic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of him being aligned with extremists. |