Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The Mysterious “Official One” Woodward’s Plame-Leak Deep Throat By JASON LEOPOLD He is referred to as “official one” and he is the mysterious senior Bush administration official who unmasked the identity of an undercover CIA operative to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003 and conservative columnist Robert Novak a month later. The identity […]
MoreEric Alterman | Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won’t they connect the dots? Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.
More“Bush’s War on the Press.” ::: ALTERMAN the Washington Post’s Dan Eggen reported this past Sunday, the pushback against not only reporters, but also federal whistleblowers, has been swift and severe. Eggen’s found “dozens” of employees from the CIA, the NSA and other intelligence agencies who have been interviewed by FBI agents “investigating possible leaks that led […]
MoreDo Vanity Fair reporters have some kind of truth serum for their interview subjects? It seems as though people are always admitting things like eating disorders or revealing their sources in huge government scandals, and then, suddenly, they never said any of these things. First it was Lindsay Lohan‘s “I never said I had […]
MoreIt’s GALLING…. She referred to hotel-balcony reporters not giving us the good stories in the middle of this war zone where just three days ago, the windows in NBC’s offices were shattered once again. She went there last month for a week or so and reporter Richard Engel has been putting his life on the line the […]
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