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In overseas coverage, the networks filed a trio of follow-ups. NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught up on her June probe of First Kuwaiti, the Persian Gulf contractor suspected of using slave labor to build the United States' new $600m embassy in Baghdad. In Mitchell's update she noted that the State Department rejects the charges brought by whistleblowers and that First Kuwaiti itself calls them "spurious and unsupported." Congress is not convinced and today a House panel held hearings into the allegations.
The last time any network reported from Cuba was on May Day (text link) when the story was Fidel Castro's non-appearance at the annual parade because of ill health. Now CBS sends Kelly Cobiella to Cuba for Revolution Day--and the story is Fidel Castro's non-appearance at the annual parade because of ill health. The speech was given instead by Raul Castro: he "made it clear who is running the country." In the past year, he has "established himself as Cuba's leader and kept the country stable." It even seems he has been listening to the spat between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama over diplomatic outreach that NBC's Mitchell covered yesterday and ABC's Jake Tapper on Tuesday. Obama seems to have found a willing interlocutor: the younger Castro called any US offer of talks "a welcome change."
The Pentagon cover-up of the death in Afghanistan of former NFL football player Pat Tillman was followed by CBS' Kimberly Dozier. She reported that seven officers, including four generals, will be punished for concocting a false tale of heroism in battle when they knew that he had been killed by his own comrades, "a tragedy compounded by deceit," as Dozier put it. The punishments are unknown, they may involve demotion--stripping stars from generals--or letters of censure.
UPDATE: Dozier's videostream appears to have been removed from CBS News' Website after it was revealed that her report contained the wrong picture of one of the fabricating generals. Dozier showed us the face of Gen Gary Lee Jones to represent the guilty party Gen Gary M Jones. CBS anchor Katie Couric apologized next day for the error with sincere regrets.
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