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Wednesday, November 9
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 06:39 PM EST
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 06:21 PM EST
Judith Miller and the NYT have agreed on the terms of her departure from the paper. Now she's free to peddle the Bush administration's spin on WMDs to whoever will have her. Here's the NYT story. Here's a note from executive editor Bill Keller to NYT newsroom staff. Editor and Publisher has some reaction from Miller and a preview of her farewell letter that will appear Thursday. This New York Observer story offers a prelude of the behind-the-scenes stuff leading up to Wednesday's announcement.
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 04:24 PM EST
Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle isn't prepared to give The Colbert Report the benefit of any doubt. more »
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 04:05 PM EST
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on how a suspect at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison died while undergoing an interrogation by the CIA. more »
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 01:43 PM EST
The CIA wants the Justice Department to investigate the source of a Washington Post story that said the spy agency was operating a global network of covert prisons. more »
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 01:36 PM EST
British MPs have voted 322-291 against giving British police the power to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge, although they did approve an expansion to 28 days. Forty-nine Labour MPs voted against the bill, putting a dent in the authority of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here's the BBC story.
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 10:34 AM EST
The Washington Post revealed recently the CIA is operating a global network of secret prisons for terrorism suspects. But at the Pentagon's request, they wouldn't say where those prisons were. The group Human Rights Watch, citing military flight records, says Poland and Romania, to name two (those countries deny the allegation; however, they are part of the "war on terrror.") And one critic said the Post's refusal to give the prisons' locations was the greatest act of media self-censorship since the New York Times acquiesed to White House pressure on the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. more »
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 10:14 AM EST
The CIA's inspector general warned the agency that some interrogation procedures approved in the wake of 9/11 might violate some parts of the International Convention Against Torture, the NYT is reporting today. more »
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 10:03 AM EST
This headline on CTV.ca caught my eye: Michael Jackson may never live in U.S. again.
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billdoskoch
on Wed 09 Nov 2005 01:41 AM EST
The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias wrote Tuesday about the encounter between herself, four young journalists -- and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. more » |
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