From investigative reporter Evelyn Pringle, via email, regarding a series of articles she wrote detailing Illinois corruption:

According to an email I received, in a daily newsletter or memo to members, Rob Kall said I was second in drawing the most readers to OpEd News but he thought it was because I was a Hillary supporter and I had [written] a series of articles “attacking” Obama.

He told members that he was considering whether to remove the articles.

When I got the email, I responded that this was the first I heard of it and would be outraged if he removed the series. I said I did not write the articles because I was a Hillary supporter that I wrote them because my investigation turned up what it did about Obama and I could hardly not write about it simply because he was a Democrat.

I explained that shortly after I started publishing the series, I posted my reasoning for writing the articles and told readers that if they found any factual statements that were false or untrue to contact me by the email I listed and show me where I was wrong and I would make a correction.

Not one person contacted me to challenge anything written in the 10 articles.

Yesterday I received an email in my OpEd mailbox asking what happened to my articles and when I went and checked they were gone. I was not given any notice that they were being removed and I was outraged.

I have been a columnist for OpEd News for probably 2 years. Well over 100 of my articles have been published on that site. Rob Kall has never before refused to publish anything I have written much less removed an article months after it appeared on OpEd.

I did not set out to find the corruption that engulfs Obama. I was as surprised as anyone else at what I found. However, as a journalist and a human being, after conducting a 2 and a half month investigation, I had a duty to write truthful reports just as I have done many times in the past with Republicans.

Rob Kall’s attempt to suppress the findings of my investigation will not succeed because the entire Obama series is still available on the Scoop and Counter Currents websites, as well as several others. After learning what happened on OpEd, other websites have contacted me and offered to republish all the articles in full.

For obvious reasons, from this day forward I will no longer be affiliated with OpEd News in any capacity. I will not have my name associated with an internet daily that can no longer be trusted to publish uncensored truthful information for the American public regardless of who it pertains to.

You can read Pringle’s articles at Scoop:

Barack Obama – The Wizard of Oz - March 29 2008

Barack Obama – Operation Board Games For Slumlords - Apr 7, 2008

Barack Obama – Subplots of Operation Board Games – Apr 21, 2008

Curtain Time For Barack Obama – Part I  - May 13, 2008

Curtain Time for Barack Obama – Part II – May 14, 2008

Curtain Time for Barack Obama - Part III – May 16, 2008

Scoop: Curtain Time for Barack Obama – Part IV – May 17, 2008

Curtain Time for Barack Obama – Part V – May 19, 2008

Final Chapter – Curtain Time for Barack Obama – May 24, 2008