Lots o' false positives in the NSA's investigative tips to the FBI, wasting much valuable manpower, says this NYT story.

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U.S. Sccretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered a generalized justification for the missile strike on a Pakistan village that was supposed to take out al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri. It didn't, and now the whole nation is in an uproar.

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The BBC has a collection of some of the Iranian president's bon mots since taking office in August 2005.

From the BBC:

Andrzej Marek again proclaimed his innocence as his three-month prison term began in Szczecin on Monday.

He was convicted in 2002 of libelling an official in the town of Police by saying the man used his position to promote his advertising business.

Rights groups have protested against the sentence, noting he is the only person in the EU imprisoned for libel.

Ann Cooper, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said she was "deeply troubled" by the court ruling.

"This case demonstrates the urgent need for Polish authorities to eliminate laws that criminalise libel," she said in a statement before Marek was jailed.

Poland is not a hotbed of free expression. Check out this earlier posting.