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Edward Snowden Unveiled as Source Behind the NSA Leaks

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 09, 2013 31 Comments

The Guardian today unveiled the identity of the individual who provided National Security documents that sparked a firestorm of media attention and scrutiny of how the agency collects and utilizes the intelligence it collects from a multitude of commercial sources. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343799572012875776 From the Guardian: The...

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/09/2013 – The Palestinian do-over mentality

Posted by David Gerstman on June 09, 2013 5 Comments

Erekat’s Latrun gambit In commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the start of the Six Day War, the New York Times published a press release for the Palestinian Authority, On Anniversary of Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian Plea: It was here on the wooded slopes of...

Zimmerman Case: Experts Call State’s Scream Claims “Absurd” “Ridiculous” and “Imaginary Stuff”

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 09, 2013 58 Comments

A Badly Mismatched Battle of the Experts We covered yesterday’s testimony of the state witnesses at length here, so no point in going over that again. Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the expert witness testimony of two more of the defense...

Wikileaker Bradley Manning’s Former Army Supervisors Testify on Day Three of Trial

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 05, 2013 4 Comments

Day three in the military trial of Bradley Manning continued today, with testimony from the accused Wikileaker’s former Army supervisor and an Army specialist who was Manning’s team leader at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq. Some of the testimony focused on Private First Class...

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/05/2013 – Erdogan’s straits

Posted by David Gerstman on June 05, 2013 8 Comments

1) Talkin’ Turkey Claire Berlinski provides the recent background for the foment going on in Turkey: Of late, almost every sector of the electorate has felt unease about one part or another of Erdoğan’s agenda. Restrictive new alcohol legislation, rammed through parliament, as usual, with...

Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Testifies on Day Two of Bradley Manning Trial

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 04, 2013 7 Comments

Day two in the military trial of Bradley Manning continued today. While much of the day’s events are reported to have focused on chain-of-custody issues and other evidentiary matters, one notable highlight was the testimony of the man who first alerted authorities to the extensive...

Operative in Secret McConnell Recording Publicly Confesses, Compounds His Problems

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 31, 2013 27 Comments

A Progress Kentucky volunteer who was at the center of a story involving the secret recording of Senator Mitch McConnell’s campaign meeting earlier this year has publicly admitted to making the recording, and he says that his attorney has been contacted by an assistant US...

Thomas Friedman on Obamacare: It’s gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

Posted by David Gerstman on May 26, 2013 34 Comments

I can see clearly now the rain is gone … How often does a cabinet secretary endorse an op-ed column? NYT’s Friedman sees a revolution in innovation and care under the Affordable Care Act: http://t.co/vNwDTumGqs #HealthInnovation #ACA — Kathleen Sebelius (@SecSebelius) May 25, 2013 Thomas...

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah on Syria — Going all out to save Assad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2013 6 Comments

I mentioned the other day how the fight in Syria wasn’t going quite as easily as many predicted for Hezbollah, with it suffering heavy losses even trying to take a modestly-sized border city, Will Qusayr be Hezbollah’s Stalingrad? As of the latest reports, rebels are...

Syrian Electronic Army Launched Cyberattack on Israeli City’s Water Infrastructure

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 25, 2013 1 Comment

A group of hackers attempted to break into the city of Haifa’s water system computer network, according to an Israeli security expert. From the AP via ABC News: Speaking at a lecture on Saturday in the southern city of Beersheba, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Israel’s former...

NY injured special forces soldier takes plea for same offense on which David Gregory walked

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2013 7 Comments

"The intense focus you brought saved Nathan from years in jail."

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/24/2013 – The Peace Deal that Abbas passed on

Posted by David Gerstman on May 24, 2013 2 Comments

1) Missing another opportunity to miss an opportunity Yesterday, Prof Jacobson posted about an exclusive story at The Tower by Avi Issacharoff about the peace deal that Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 but that Abbas never accepted. Today Isacharoff follows up with more...

IRS Official Lois Lerner Placed on Administrative Leave as Scandal Grows

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 23, 2013 17 Comments

This just in tonight, an IRS source in the agency’s Cincinnati office says that Lois Lerner, one of the officials at the center of the IRS scandal, has been placed on administrative leave (with pay). From National Review Online: Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an...

More evidence it’s not about land for peace in Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2013 6 Comments

An article today at The Tower discloses a rough, handdrawn map allegedly by Mahmoud Abbas, refecting a peace offer extended by Ehud Olmert when he was Prime Minister of Israel, EXCLUSIVE: The Deal the Palestinians Rejected, The History That Was Never Made: In a stunning...

How much has DOJ overreached? Other news organizations might have to defend Fox News (Update – Search Warrant added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2013 24 Comments

I said "might" not "would"

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/19/2013 – The Kurdish Gambit

Posted by David Gerstman on May 19, 2013 2 Comments

Erdogan ♥s Ocalan? Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times: The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see...

Obama was just joking about IRS audits, not sending signals

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 13 Comments

Oh come on, all you. Really. How could anyone think differently? Anyone? Buhler? John Kass, IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way (h/t @bryanjacoutot): I didn’t understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old...

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