From the NYT:

Students of how the Bush administration led the nation into the Iraq war can now go online to browse a comprehensive database of top officials’ statements before the invasion, connecting the dots between hundreds of claims, mostly discredited since then, linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda or warning that he possessed forbidden weapons.

The Center for Public Integrity, a research group that focuses on ethics in government and public policy, designed the new Web site to allow simple searches for specific phrases, such as “mushroom cloud” or “yellowcake uranium,” in transcripts and documents totaling some 380,000 words, including remarks by President Bush and most of his top advisers in the two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

James E. O'Shea had always been seen as a Tribune Co. loyalist, which makes his forced departure from the L.A. Times and his final memo that much more remarkable:

From AP via globeandmail.com:

An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.

The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Judge Wahab did not preside over the trial.

From The Globe and Mail:

Canada's most-wanted criminals are a step closer to getting exposure on national television - on a channel that longs to put them behind bars.

A controversial bid for a 24-hour cable service devoted to finding escaped convicts, parolees at large and abducted children was given a boost by broadcast regulators yesterday in a long-awaited ruling potentially worth millions of dollars.

Four lawyers in a Canadian Islamic Congress action against Maclean's magazine respond to Ezra Levant.