Thread by @CAMERAorg

CAMERA continues to urge the NY Times to correct two errors about past US policy — including the false assertion that Pompeo's announcement that settlements are not illegal reversed "four decades of American policy." @Rogene @halbfinger @meslackman

@Rogene @halbfinger @meslackman Notably, the paper has corrected similar errors twice in the past.

History hasn't changed, and readers today deserve no less than readers in 2013 and 2017.

@Rogene @halbfinger @meslackman Reagan's position, and the prior NYT corrections, speak for themselves.

But for emphasis: Here's Seymour Maxwell Finger, described in a NYT obituary as "a recognized authority on foreign affairs," noting in 1983 the Reagan position that settlements are "not illegal."

@Rogene @halbfinger @meslackman Here, from 1985, is Charles W. Maynes in @ForeignAffairs describing the "administration position" affirming the legality of settlements.

(Maynes was an assistant secretary of state under Carter and later editor of @ForeignPolicy mag.)

@Rogene @halbfinger @meslackman @ForeignAffairs @ForeignPolicy The New York Times has still not corrected its flagrantly false claim that Pompeo's announcement reversed four decades of US policy.

Here is George Shultz in 1984, reiterating his administration's position that settlements are not illegal.