The Caribbean News Agency (Cana) reported yesterday that the letter supposedly written by Senator Hilasry Clinton to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and copied to a number of Caribbean leaders, supporting their stance against the OECD's 'harmful tax competition' initiative, was in fact not written by her, but was mistakenly sent from Washington as if from her, when in truth it wasn't.
The letter, which was widely reported in the press, and was featured in Tax-News.com, is now said to have been a draft intended to be signed by the former First Lady, and accepted by the Caribbean Prime Ministers as genuine in error.
Tax-News regrets having unwittingly misled readers; but the affair highlights the dangers of e-mail, presumably the medium used to convey the copy letters to the Caribbean. There is no way of telling from an e-mail where a text may have originated. It's a primary rule of journalism to check your sources, but when Prime Ministers' offices and respected news agencies say the same thing, it's usually OK to believe it.
Next question: What does the Senator think about the OECD? Her office didn't return calls on the subject last night.
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