AIM Report: CNN's George Soros-gate - May B
May 21, 2005 The program left the impression that people were being wrongly incarcerated for rape and murder because of problems in crime labs relating to forensic evidence.
Clear and convincing evidence indicates that billionaire money manipulator and anti-conservative activist George Soros provided financing for research on a CNN documentary.
Soros, a convicted insider trader who spent $23 million to defeat President Bush for re-election, not only had a role in underwriting the research that went into the program, but CNN promoted his agenda of ending incarceration for dangerous criminals.
The program, "Reasonable Doubt: Can Crime Labs be Trusted?," which CNN aired several times last January as a "CNN Presents" documentary, was prepared in cooperation with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and hosted by Aaron Brown.
In its own account of its role in the show, CIR acknowledged that "Funding for this investigation was provided in part by a 2003 Soros Justice Media Fellowship awarded to Robin Mejia by the Open Society Institute, and by a grant to CIR from the Ford Foundation and CIR's Investigative Venture Fund."
http://www.aim.org/aim_report/3649_0_4_0_C/