Comments on: DNI McConnell to Intelligence Analysts: Go Talk to Juan Cole

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:54:02 +0000

Awww… poor Mikey ;-)))
Actually, that article is really, really good.
I think the blogs are making him a better writer.

Plus, I wouldn’t have read the article if not for a link on the blogs.
Driving audience, EW is.
So they oughta hit her PayPal, if you get my drift.

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:16:56 +0000

Isikoff was clearly threatened by people paying direct attention to what their government is doing. (Libby trial) He was clearly threatened by people witnessing the trial first hand and feeding it directly to the folks on blogs. It was oh so clear.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:36:11 +0000

Well, I hope he takes the conversation to heart.

Please feel free to disabuse Mr Isikoff of his false notion that we DFH’s have nothing better to do with our time than hang out on blogs. Some of us do work that requires us to keep an eye on our computers while files render, and at least in my case, the Internet keeps me (moderately) sane while I wait for other processes to complete.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:30:30 +0000

Oh my.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:29:16 +0000

Excellent.

Trust me, me and Isikoff have a date in the near future, to discuss his “journalism.”

But in the meantime, I’ll take his journamilism.

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:04:35 +0000

During the Libby Trial I sat directly behind Isikoff and David Corn. I heard them referring to some of the Libby trial bloggers. At one point he said “don’t they have anything better to do”. I believe some of these MSMers were Tthreatened by how great EW, Jane and Christy were filling folks in on what was taking place.

I sat behind some other Mainstreamers (sat on the side with the press at one point and no one threw me out) at the trial overheard some interesting conversations.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:36:34 +0000

Ah, and speaking of (financial, corporate, moneylaundering) Frankensteins…. the CIA should also glance at Isikoff today and learn about how the Saudi’s may be (are?) using terrorism to blackmail the West.

Yeah, I said ‘read Isikoff’… Does he read EW with the rest of us?
Because how’d he know to keep an eye out for links between BAE, Tony Blair, Bandar Bush bin Laden, and terrorism threats?
We knew it here because EW has covered those topics this year.
However, props to Isikoff for several really good quotes, and for bringing this toxic seepage to a larger public.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/149626

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:27:46 +0000

Re: Clancy

Makes ya wonder what other wonderful things he and other fiction writers have told them.

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:31:48 +0000

Too many right wingnut christians too few lions

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:30:08 +0000

Thank goodness for Juan Cole.

Before the invasion of Iraq I kept asking out loud (on C-span, the Rehm show, Talk of the Nation) How in the hell could a soccer mom in southeastern Ohio be hearing expert( Scott Ritter) after analyst ( Josepph Cirincione, former Cia analyst and Flynt Leverett) after Iaea’s El Baradei at the UN in early march of 2002 after Former Presidents (Jimmy Carter) after UN’s Kofi Anan on NPR shows and in the news question the validity of the intelligence and the wisdom of such a pre-emptive invasion and congress could not access this information and questions.

Hell we had Jason Vest, Jason Leopold, Kathleen and Bill Christison, Scott Ritter, Justin Raimando and so many others reporting about issues that were finally reported about in Phase II of the SSCI

Could never buy Hillary’s and other congress members excuses “if only we knew then what we know now” horse shit spin