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BUZZFEED: SCHMIDT'S OFFICE EDITED OUT REFERENCE TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
Cincinnati.com
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/10/buzzfeed-schmidts-office-edited-out-reference-to-armenian-genocide-denial/
July 10 2012
Rep. Jean Schmidt is one of 33 lawmakers whose offices have done
"a bit of historical airbrushing" to their Wikipedia profiles,
according to an item in BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed says it used congressional IP addresses to figure out which
lawmakers' offices edited out embarrassing tidbits from the online
reference site.
What revisions did Schmidt's office make? "Removed entire 'Armenian
Genocide Denial issue' section," BuzzFeed reports.
Schmidt has long sided with Turkish-American interest groups in
opposing legislation to label as "genocide" the mass killing and
deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire starting in 1915. Her
position on the issue earned her harsh criticism from a political
opponent, David Krikorian, an Armenian American who accused her of
taking "blood money" from Turkish interests to push the anti-genocide
position.
Krikorian filed an ethics complaint, and the House Ethics Committee
eventually concluded that Schmidt had unknowingly accepted an improper
gift from the Turkish Coalition of America. That group was paying
the legal bills in Schmidt's court tangle with Krikorian, including
a defamation suit she had filed against him.
It's not clear when Schmidt's office removed that section, but it's
back in now. Here's the BuzzFeed link and here's Schmidt's Wikipedia
entry .
Cincinnati.com
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/10/buzzfeed-schmidts-office-edited-out-reference-to-armenian-genocide-denial/
July 10 2012
Rep. Jean Schmidt is one of 33 lawmakers whose offices have done
"a bit of historical airbrushing" to their Wikipedia profiles,
according to an item in BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed says it used congressional IP addresses to figure out which
lawmakers' offices edited out embarrassing tidbits from the online
reference site.
What revisions did Schmidt's office make? "Removed entire 'Armenian
Genocide Denial issue' section," BuzzFeed reports.
Schmidt has long sided with Turkish-American interest groups in
opposing legislation to label as "genocide" the mass killing and
deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire starting in 1915. Her
position on the issue earned her harsh criticism from a political
opponent, David Krikorian, an Armenian American who accused her of
taking "blood money" from Turkish interests to push the anti-genocide
position.
Krikorian filed an ethics complaint, and the House Ethics Committee
eventually concluded that Schmidt had unknowingly accepted an improper
gift from the Turkish Coalition of America. That group was paying
the legal bills in Schmidt's court tangle with Krikorian, including
a defamation suit she had filed against him.
It's not clear when Schmidt's office removed that section, but it's
back in now. Here's the BuzzFeed link and here's Schmidt's Wikipedia
entry .