From the April 6 Washington Post story:

Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.

The declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble, also contains new details about the intelligence community's prewar consensus that the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda figures had only limited contacts, and about its judgments that reports of deeper links were based on dubious or unconfirmed information. The report had been released in summary form in February. ...

The report's release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last June.

"This is al-Qaeda operating in Iraq," Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for Iraq." Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would "play right into the hands of al-Qaeda."

Real estate magnate Samuel Zell, who acquired control of the massive Tribune Co. media empire, doesn't think newspapers should be giving their content away to Google and other Internet aggregators.

The fact that several U.S. presidential hopefuls have announced their intensions first on their Web sites (wave, Hillary!) showing the growing importance of the medium in U.S. politics, claims this BBC story.

The IPCC process got a bit rambunctious, with scientists and government officials duking out to the last moment in deciding how to word the 'impacts' summary for policy makers from the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

I would recommend taking the Spadina line streetcars and then waiting for the magic to happen. :)

I haven't been subjected to the process myself, but I have had occasion to listen in over the past few days, and they are absolutely fascinated by the lives of all those who don't recoil from them. :)

Lots o' "fantastics!" and "that's really interesting!"-type phrases being thrown around by the missionaries.

The Week has decided to celebrate Earth Day by publishing its environment issue only on its website. And the whole thing will be brought to people by Lexus. :)

Activist-journalist Josh Wolf was jailed on Aug. 1 after refusing to turn over video he shot of a G8 protest in San Francisco. He was released Tuesday, making him the longest-incarcerated journalist in U.S. history. He spoke to Democracy Now!