Oh come on Jim, look at the mans bio, he's a source of the highest quality who has genuine sources and never reports half truths.
As for the mainstream, remember Abu-Ghraib? (if not go read about the atrocities and macabre torture committed by US troops under orders from the higher ups in the chain of command). that story broke first on the alternative media and was forced into the mainstream news.
Abu-Ghraib is not an isolated case, there have been many examples of stories forced into the mainstream, so i am sure you can understand my reluctance to trust the mainstream to break such news.
Edit, besides, what will you say IF in say a few weeks/months/years it comes out this story is true, these sources are still not trustworthy?
Edit2: Wayne Madsen's bio:
Wayne Madsen Biography:
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law; Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.
Madsen is a regular contributor on Russia Today.
He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera,
and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government.
Madsen has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Madsen was a Senior Fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy public advocacy organization.
Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club.Not good enough for you?