Yes, and the public deserves to know what’s being executed in our name. She deserves each phrase of it. On this point, the final phrase is, use frequent sense, in a spirit of absolute MUTUALITY. This is an effective use of nameless sourcing and I’m sure anyone who hasn’t bought the administration line on how we aren’t imagined to criticize them understands why Priest’s sources had to be nameless. One was Dana Priest’s story on Wednesday, disclosing the CIA’s covert prison system in Eastern Europe for suspected al Qaeda terrorists. The way I heard it, Roger Ailes (not the nice one) went to see Al Gore’s speech on the setting, and that could explain this report at News Hounds last week.Juan Cole’s rendition of “Blowin’ in the Wind”.Robert Dreyfuss at TomPaine, Our Monsters In Iraq: It is time to begin waving the bloody shirt. I observed it while I was over at Blah3 and went to the source to search for it, and while I was there I additionally preferred Mountains of Creation and Thor’s Helmet. He’s the grasp of the nameless supply. Saturday, 19 November 2005 Politics in your feetI just discover that I’d by chance broken my RSS feed.
God, it’s disgusting. And, like John says, Woodward’s excuse for not exposing all this sooner, even to his boss, is a blatant lie that the alleged ombudsman shouldn’t be attempting to feed us. Taking a look at WaPo Ombud Deborah Howell’s piece on nameless sourcing, I need to surprise whether this is some particular spin cooked up to paint over what’s going on, or do the leading voices at one of many main newspapers actually not perceive what’s incorrect with the fact that more and more, the paper seems like a gossip column quite than, properly, a serious newspaper.The considered reporters testifying as prosecution witnesses in the Libby case frightened many on the conference. The Mirror poked enjoyable on the present for having “a weird box with flashing multicoloured lights that regarded like an Ikea-bought version of Doctor Who’s TARDIS”. Lucy Dalglish, a lawyer and former reporter who’s govt director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, stated, “The general public should have access to fact as much as attainable, but reporters cannot change into brokers of government prosecutions or civil litigants.” Most participants felt there needs to be a federal legislation to shield reporters from having to identify their sources; most states have legal guidelines providing some safety.
But that’s due to Our Monsters within the White House.Via Atrios, ArmsControlWonk looks at “the cancer that’s killing the Gray Lady” after the NYT refuses to print a correction to an article that misleadingly means that the US has proof that Iran is designing a nuclear weapon.Via Caro (of), FEC: Blogs Are Just As Much “Press” As Everyone Else. Leaders in different international locations know we are using their international locations as places to torture the disappeared. Iraqis already know we’re disappearing members of their communities and torturing them. Not solely that, but they are monsters armed, educated and supported by George W. Bush’s administration. And here’s another hyperlink that didn’t put up correctly at C&L, to another graceful George W. Bush moment. And there’s another heading up Radar Contact’s post Thank you, Jack.Robert Scheer deconstructs The massive Lie Technique within the Nation: Clearly on the defensive, Bush now sounds more and more Nixonian as he basically calls the majority of the country traitors for noticing he tricked us. Should you recall, earlier than he published the intricate particulars surrounding the Watergate break-in, he demanded that somebody corroborate “Deep Throat’s” accounts, and go on the record.That was good coverage for journalists and media shops then, and is sorely missing now.
In the event you don’t have an excellent accomplice. Test it out. (I found his site via Yep, another Goddamned blog .)John Aravosis has a good response to the latest from the WaPo ombudsbeing, Washington Post ombudsman lets Woodward off the hook. Paul was certainly not an additionally-ran in this division both, as evidenced by his fantastic renditions of numbers reminiscent of Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” but in John he was up against one of the all-time nice rock ‘n’ roll vocalists. 30Mar49; B184523. John Cage (A); 22Mar77; R658079. Friday, 18 November 2005 Bloggity-blogFOX Flip Flops On Global Warming. Sunday, 20 November 2005 Seen and heardBra of the WeekCharles Laquidara has a weblog, and his song of the week is Quicksilver’s “Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder”. It would have been good if Kerry had defended himself (as Murtha has demonstrated), but the other Dems owed it to their colleagues to face firm against attacks on them somewhat than joining in (as they did anonymously final November and 4 years earlier against Gore). She tapped home and international sources developed over almost three years on the national security beat.