| − | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Politcal 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 remove Brandt's criticism of PRA, and 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 being 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 guilt by association smear -- be aligned with Holocaust denial. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could nolonger be cited as a ctitic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of 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 to remove Brandt's criticism of PRA, and 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 being 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 guilt by association smear -- be aligned with Holocaust denial. 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 being aligned with extremists. |