WaPo Loses Its Top Web Columnist Harpers By Scott Horton June 19, 11:00 AM, 2009 For years, the best thing going at the Washington Post’s website has been Dan Froomkin’s “White House Watch” (originally called “White House Briefing.”) In fact, aside from the need to link to pieces from their print edition, there has been […]
Republicans urge Obama to get tougher on Iran Washington Post by Kevin Drawbaugh and Paul Simao Hopes for US-Iran Ties Imperiled by Election Turmoil, Analysts Warn FOXNewsby James Rosen Oh look. The Right is playing both sides of the fence….
Just a note from a reader of "Angler" [me]. Gellman’s portrait of Cheney is hard to put down and hard to pick up. I was on a weekend trip to South Carolina, a fascinating visit with the Bear Clan of the Cherokee to see some of the vestiges of the "lower villages" [gone since the […]
Remember back during the C.I.A. Leak [Valerie Plame] era, Karl Rove had gone to testify several times to Patrick Fitzgerald’s Grand Jury [and apperently lied]? Then his lawyer had lunch with Time Magazine reporter, Viveca Novak, who tipped him off that Matt Cooper had fingered him as a source. So Rove magically found an email […]
In wake of mass protests, Iran cuts off cell phones, YouTube, Facebook By Agence France-Presse The main mobile telephone network in Iran was cut in the capital Tehran Saturday evening while popular Internet websites Facebook and YouTube also appeared to be blocked, correspondents said. The communication cuts came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide […]
Reading Angler is kind of painful. It’s the story of two master-manipulators [Cheney and Addington] with a few lackeys [Yoo and Bybee] taking advantage of a lightweight leader [Bush] and outmaneuvering anybody remotely right-thinking [Rice and Powell]. If it were a summer spy novel, one might be tempted to admire their cunning and sleight of […]
Post Axes Froomkin’s "White House Watch" Washington Post Andrew Alexander June 18, 2009 After five and a half years as a regular feature on the Web site, Dan Froomkin’s White House Watch column is being axed. Froomkin was quietly passing the word today that he was told by The Post that his contract will be […]
I don’t know what it all means. I’m not even sure they know. But I know that it feels like a very good thing for the future of the world. A year ago, our government was trying to find any excuse possible to bomb Iran. But they’d already used up all of their currency invading […]
I couldn’t help posting the Ensign quotes, but I sort of wanted to stay out of the scandal mode. We’ve had more than enough of that recently – Foley, Craig, Vitter, Spitzer, Ensign., ya-da ya-da. Political porn is kind of a yawner. But reading snips throughout the day suggests that this story is more complicated […]