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Article: Freedom House: an exchange.(Letter to the editor)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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While preparing his article about Freedom House ("Freedom House, Rocked," April 2), John J. Miller contacted a Cuban-American organization that partners with Freedom House to promote democracy in Cuba. In an infelicitously worded e-mail, Miller inquired as to whether Freedom House had "gone soft" on Fidel Castro. He was informed that Freedom House remains stalwart in the cause of Cuban freedom. Yet this detail never made it into the article. Presumably, testimony to Freedom House's continuing commitment to Cuban freedom interfered with Miller's narrative of an organization that has lost its political clarity.
This is not the only example of Miller's simply ...