WSJ: Don’t Be Mean to Us Like Fitz Was to Judy
Most sane people are outraged by the WSJ’s hacktalicious editorial calling for calm on the hack scandal. As well they should: the editorial discredits WSJ as a paper. But I was particularly interested...
View ArticleAt About the Time He Subpoenaed Judy Miller, Patrick Fitzgerald Interviewed...
When I recover a bit more from having finished Dick Cheney’s infernal tome, I will have more to say about it. But I wanted to point to this piece of news in it that no one has yet noted: I participated...
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Ten Years Ago, Anthrax Attacks–and Judy Miller–Had Huge Effect on Passage of...
Ten years ago today, George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law. (US National Archives photo) Ten years ago today, George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in what many consider to be the...
View ArticleJudy Miller Discovers the Word “Claim”
Judy Miller, first amendment martyr, has finally found an assertion that she distrusts enough to diminish by using the word “claim:” NYPD’s critics have complained about potential invasions of privacy...
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NYPD Makes Work But Not Knowledge
When I read the Judy Miller/Richard Clarke op-ed defending Ray Kelly (this is Judy’s second go-around defending Kelly, btw), I realized something about the NYPD CIA-on-the-Hudson program. They write,...
View ArticleAs Bush Did with Judy Miller, Obama Insta-Declassifies for David Ignatius
One more point about the David Ignatius wankfest today. In his story pitching OBL as a still-ambitious terrorist rather than an out-of-touch idiot, David Ignatius claimed the documents he based his...
View ArticleJudy Miller, Barabara Starr, and an Influx of Intelligence
I’m going to disappoint Jim by not dedicating a full post to Judy Miller’s graceless rant about the AP’s Pulitzer win, in which she whines that the AP hasn’t taken Ray Kelly’s insistence that his...
View ArticleObama DOJ Claims Journalists Are Like Drug Users
HuffPo has a good write-up of Friday’s Fourth Circuit hearing on whether James Risen is entitled to a reporter’s privilege in the Jeff Sterling case. It describes Judge Robert Gregory challenging DOJ...
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Cheney’s Thugs Win the Prize for Leak Hypocrisy
I wasn’t much interested in Mitt Romney’s latest efforts to change the narrative from the evil things he profited off of at Bain Capital and the tax havens he stashed the money he got as a result. Not...
View ArticleThe AP Grab: NSL versus Subpoena
Update: In his letter responding to AP’s complaints, Deputy Attorney General James Cole says these were subpoenas. Cole tries to argue the scope of the subpoena was fair. But what he doesn’t explain is...
View ArticleJoby Warrick Is the New Judy Miller
Poor Joby Warrick. With Judy Miller so disgraced that Fox News had to issue a “she has nothing to apologize for” press release when they hired her back in 2008, Joby drew the short straw yesterday and...
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Peter Baker, Meat Grinder for Bush
In the NYT, Peter Baker presents his version of George Bush’s decision not to pardon Scooter Libby as the best pitch for his new book, Days of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House. Given that the...
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DNA Sequence Analysis Shows Ebola Outbreak Naturally Ocurring, Not Engineered...
In an electron microscope image that has been colorized, Ebola virus particles in blue are being extruded from an African Green Monkey kidney cell in yellow, grown in a laboratory cell culture system....
View ArticleDick Cheney Gets Judy Miller to Serve as His Cut-Out, Again
When Judy Miller wrote a piece for the WSJ pitching her new autobiographical novel, she was very specific about what she had said and not said with Dick Cheney and when. I have never met George W....
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NYPD Makes Work But Not Knowledge
When I read the Judy Miller/Richard Clarke op-ed defending Ray Kelly (this is Judy’s second go-around defending Kelly, btw), I realized something about the NYPD CIA-on-the-Hudson program. They write,...
View ArticleAs Bush Did with Judy Miller, Obama Insta-Declassifies for David Ignatius
One more point about the David Ignatius wankfest today. In his story pitching OBL as a still-ambitious terrorist rather than an out-of-touch idiot, David Ignatius claimed the documents he based his...
View ArticleJudy Miller, Barabara Starr, and an Influx of Intelligence
I’m going to disappoint Jim by not dedicating a full post to Judy Miller’s graceless rant about the AP’s Pulitzer win, in which she whines that the AP hasn’t taken Ray Kelly’s insistence that his...
View ArticleObama DOJ Claims Journalists Are Like Drug Users
HuffPo has a good write-up of Friday’s Fourth Circuit hearing on whether James Risen is entitled to a reporter’s privilege in the Jeff Sterling case. It describes Judge Robert Gregory challenging DOJ...
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Cheney’s Thugs Win the Prize for Leak Hypocrisy
I wasn’t much interested in Mitt Romney’s latest efforts to change the narrative from the evil things he profited off of at Bain Capital and the tax havens he stashed the money he got as a result. Not...
View ArticleThe AP Grab: NSL versus Subpoena
Update: In his letter responding to AP’s complaints, Deputy Attorney General James Cole says these were subpoenas. Cole tries to argue the scope of the subpoena was fair. But what he doesn’t explain is...
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