Saturday, March 26, 2011

Dan Rather's crew 'humiliated by Israeli security'

In a letter to Israeli officials, producer says legendary anchorman's crew held up for hours at security checks, strip-searched before interview with Deputy PM Meridor ... The allegations, made in a letter to Israeli officials that was obtained by The Associated Press, add to growing complaints about how Israeli security officials treat foreign media .. Andrew Glazer, an Emmy-award winning producer at Dan Rather Reports, wrote that the legendary anchorman came to do a story about improving Israeli-Palestinian relations pitched by Israel's Foreign Ministry ... "Mr. Rather said that in his career, he had never seen a crew forced to strip prior to an interview -- including the one he conducted with Saddam Hussein," Glazer wrote.
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