This is an imperfect but useful look at some of the issues surrounding 60 Minutes II and the infamous memos about Dubya in the Texas Air National Guard.

This really disturbed me when I saw it on the wire this evening: Gary Webb, a journalist who had investigated links between the CIA-created Contras and the crack cocaine trade, has been found dead.

But what disturbed me even more me is how the coverage so far mentions work discrediting 'Dark Alliance' but none of it mentions a 1998 Esquire Magazine article that, to my mind, did a pretty good job of defending Webb and his work.

This is an edited version of a Hamilton Spectator editor on the Ken Peters case. It was carried in Saturday's Toronto Star:

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rummy to his friend, got a rough going-over during a town hall with soldiers in Kuwait earlier this week.

Now it turns out that a reporter embedded with the unit may have been playing town hall puppetmaster. Here's the more »

British MP George Galloway comments in The Guardian on his libel victory over conservative paper The Telegraph. It claimed to have found documents in post-April 9, 2003 Baghdad showing the anti-Iraq-war Galloway had received payments from the Iraq regime of Saddam Hussein.

Some more reaction and fallout from the case of Ken Peters, the Hamilton Spectator reporter found guilty of civil contempt of court: