The first vague stirrings were felt on Monday, October 3, when emails originating from friends and relatives of Department of Homeland Security officials made the rounds among a small group of New York’s elite. Thanks to pressure on the media from “federal and local authorities”, the lower classes didn’t hear anything until after Bush’s Iraq/Terrorism speech on Thursday the 6th, when “Washington signed off on the declassification process” necessary for alerting the public. . . . → Read More: A Comedy of Terrors: a review of the NY subway scare
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David M. Barrett was appointed to the Office of Independent Counsel on May 24, 1995, and charged with investigating whether or not then-Clinton administration housing secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI about how much he had paid his former mistress to keep quiet about their affair. Four and a half years and $10 million later, on September 7, 1999, Cisneros pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and agreed to pay a $10,000 fine ; Barrett, in exchange for the guilty plea, agreed to drop 18 felony counts against Cisneros. . . . → Read More: “I prefer not”: the peculiar saga of David M. Barrett One of my favorite places to eat in Bali was blown up today. . . . → Read More: Requiem for the Raja |
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Strange days at the New York Times
The New York Times is in trouble. The company’s stock has dropped nearly 30% this year; a voluntary buyout program this summer, aimed at cutting the newsroom staff by about 20 employees, is being followed by a hiring freeze and the elimination of another 45 newsroom jobs (and another 500 throughout the company); the paper’s flagship product, the daily columnists, have been sequestered behind a subscription wall; and executive editor Bill Keller is juggling a hand grenade in the person of Times reporter Judy Miller, who appears to be heavily involved in the investigation of the White House leak exposing Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative and whose involvement is wrecking the paper’s coverage of the investigation. . . . → Read More: Strange days at the New York Times