Talk:Dana Priest

message: You aren't familiar with the term "foot soldier"?  Take a look at google's response when you search the news for "foot soldier".  My rough count is that close to half of the links to foot soldier use the term to mean something other than "regular infantry".  You have never heard of the phrase "mafia foot soldier"?  Are you saying you really didn't understand that I used the phrase to distinguish the 30 al qaeda suspects in CIA custody who are believed to members of the top ranks of the al qaeda leadership from those other suspected al qaeda members, in CIA custody, who were not believed to be members of the al qaeda leadership?  If you really didn't understand, then maybe other readers won't understand.  So, that passage should be rewritten.  No better phrasing occurs to me.  I'll think about it.  Maybe you can think about it too.  
Meanwhile I am going to restore the phrase "foot soldier", because your replacement phrase is more confusing because it is simply incorrect.  Al qaeda didn't have any regular infantry.  I am only going to change the phrase once.  I am not going to be dragged into a pointless revision war.  Please don't merely replace your alternate wording, without making a good faith to explain yourself on the talk page, as you did with your second revision of "above the fold".  --  Geo Swan 20:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Irrelevant to me.  Have your little page of POV, I'm done trying to clean up after your garbage. Kade 00:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "foot soldier" != "regular infantry"

message: I revised the use of the loaded words "claim" and "allege" in order to gain a more NPOV.  I noted that the descriptions of the content of Priest's articles had these words, but the descriptions of contradictory articles did not.  This is not NPOV. Zaslav 00:54, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: External bio links #1 and #2 seem to be several years old.  External link # 3 on Mary McCarthy is no longer supported by the Washington Post (although it should be available via the Post's archive search function for a fee).  References list item # 4 is a dead link.  (Catawba 20:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated/dead references and external links

message: The lede says born 1957, but there is a category for births in 1959.  Which is it?--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:12, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I was confused when I saw the date 1957 on Wikipedia, because a page I viewed previously read 1959 ( http://www.nndb.com/people/469/000109142/ ) 71.238.210.208 (talk) 22:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth?

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