UPDATE: Joe Nye writes that Franklin Foer is simply wrong when he claims that Joe Nye did not disclose to TNR the circumstances of his trip to Libya:
It is important to emphasize that I disclosed my connection with the Monitor Group when I wrote the article.... When Mother Jones asked The New Republic if I had disclosed that Monitor had paid me as a consultant, TNR maintained that I had not.But this was mistaken. I dug out the first draft I sent to TNR, and it says clearly, "I was in Libya at the invitation of a former Harvard colleague who works for the Monitor Group, a consulting company which has undertaken to help Libya open itself to the global economy. Part of that process is meeting with a variety of Western experts whom Monitor hires as consultants." The final sentence of this disclosure was dropped by the editors at TNR. I have sent the original to both TNR and Mother Jones and asked for a retraction of the false statement that I did not alert them...
Published on March 10, 2011 07:49