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Archive: Jun 2008

The Bush Legacy, As Seen From London

From The Independent: So perhaps Mr. Bush’s most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that…

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Post Rules Appear at Odds with David Broder/Bob Woodward Speaking Gigs

As I reported this morning, the Post’s ombudsman Deborah Howell told me in a phone conversation that she was not sure whether the Post had official, written guidelines regarding journalist…

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Bob Woodward’s “Charity”: Follow the Money, If You Can Find It

Plus: Post Ombudsman to Weigh In, Expect Heavy Hand on Scale The Chronicle of Philanthropy has picked up and advanced my story last week about Bob Woodward’s speaking engagements with…

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Weekly Review

The Supreme Court ruled 5â??4 that detainees held as “enemy combatants” by the United States in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions…

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On the Fringe of His Line

“You can see the grown man’s 5 o’clock shadow,” Will Blythe wrote this past weekend in The New York Times Book Review, “darkening the smooth cheeks of such baby prose.”…

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The U.S. Attorneys Scandal Enters the Criminal Prosecutions Phase

Sources in Washington tell me that the year-long probe of the Bush Administration’s decision to fire a still-undetermined number of U.S. Attorneys for political and improper reasons is “substantially completed”…

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Six Questions for Michael Sheehan, Author of Crush the Cell

American cable television features an endless parade of “counterterrorism experts,” most of whom have little grounding in their advertised area of expertise. Michael Sheehan, however, is the real thing. A…

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Empedocles’s Fragment No. 17

Double is my account: for at one time it grew to be one alone from many, at another in turn it grew apart to be many from one. But double…

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Greta Van Susteren on Journalists and Speaking Fees

In my Friday story “Bob Woodward, Sponsored by Citibank,” I noted that Woodward’s speaking gigs included a stop at an event sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association. I also said…

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Plato’s Dialectic of Numbers

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Media Alert

Harper’s writer Scott Horton discusses the works and character of Chingiz Aitmatov, Central Asia’s greatest novelist, who died earlier this week of pneumonia in a hospital in Germany, on the…

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Weekend Read: “A lizard whose leg you can pluck off”

Today’s weekend read was unearthed after hours of ardent keystrokes not my own–a friend has been researching a book and went to look, using the Advanced Book Search feature of…

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Former NPR Ombudsman On Journalists and Speaking Gigs

Jeffrey Dvorkin, Executive Director of Journalism at The Real News Network and a former NPR Ombudsman, writes about my recent stories on David Broder and Bob Woodward: Good point on…

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New Cheney Videotape Surfaces

A shocking new report from America’s leading investigative publication: Reports surfaced Tuesday that the New York–based Fox News Channel has obtained a tape which purportedly features another cryptic video message…

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Countrywide Financial’s “Friends”

Terrific piece from Portfolio: Two U.S. senators, two former Cabinet members, and a former ambassador to the United Nations received loans from Countrywide Financial through a little-known program that waived…

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A Setback for the State of Exception

For the dwindling but stout-hearted band of Bush loyalists, the creation of concentration camps and introduction of torture techniques never presented much of a problem—morally or legally. On the legal…

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Bob Woodward, Sponsored by Citibank

I reported yesterday on the public speaking arrangements of David Broder and Bob Woodward, neither of whom has thus far replied to requests for comment. Here’s more on Woodward. As…

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Congressman Weldon and that Murky Russian Non-Profit

Good read from Wired: The U.S. military’s Missile Defense Agency signed a $97 million contract with a Kremlin-connected nonprofit, to help secure Russia’s aid in anti-missile projects. Pentagon higher-ups ultimately…

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Bob Woodward’s Moonlighting

I closed my item earlier today regarding David Broder’s speaking gigs with a 1995 quote from Ben Bradlee about journalists making big bucks for public speaking: I wish it would…

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David Broder’s Moonlighting: Post columnist benefits from corporate speaking deals

Back in the mid-1990s, the fact that some big-name Washington reporters were receiving huge speaking fees created a scandal within the journalism world. No one was tougher in criticizing the…

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Remembering Aitmatov

Chingiz Aitmatov, one of the most gifted writers of the Soviet era, and Central Asia’s leading novelist, died from pneumonia in a clinic in Nuremberg on Tuesday. He was 79.…

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Injured by His Large Head

The “chronology”—that sparely written, tidily formatted appendix one finds fitted into the front or back of an edition of a great work by a writer or in a volume dedicated…

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More on Obama and AIPAC

A number of people wrote with comments about the item I posted last week, “Obama Wins Coveted Hamas Un-endorsement with AIPAC Speech”. Here are two different takes, both that make…

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WSJ: Controversial Russian Tied to Congressional Scandal

I’ve been writing about Vladimir Petrosyan, an important but little known figure involved in the ex-Congressman Curt Weldon scandal, since late-2006. Today, the Wall Street Journal ran a story which…

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Weekly Review

Senator Barack Obama, having amassed more than the 2,118 delegates needed to secure a majority, was acknowledged as the Democratic presidential nominee and claimed victory before a crowd of almost…

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Nightline Looks at Corruption at Justice

The Department of Justice remains solidly in the running to be Washington’s single most corrupt institution–quite a departure from its glory days, when it was widely seen as Washington’s Mr.…

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His Dream of Himself

“It has been said by a celebrated person,” Edmund Wilson writes at the onset of his 1922 essay on F. Scott Fitzgerald, “that to meet F. Scott Fitzgerald is to…

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