When PJ Crowley tweeted this the other day: These are not #Twitter or #Wikileaks revolutions. They belong to the people, but technology can expand and accelerate the pace of change. I was going to tweet back that he had to say that, given the necessity of maintaining the Administration party line on WikiLeaks. I’ve pointed [...]
State Department’s Crowley Condemns Treatment of Bradley Manning: “Counterproductive and Stupid” |
| By: emptywheel Friday March 11, 2011 6:55 am |
NYT: All the News That’s Fit to Authoritatively Quash |
| By: emptywheel Sunday February 27, 2011 2:52 pm |
There are a couple of funny things about NYT’s public editor Arthur Brisbane’s article approving the NYT’s decision to sit on news of Raymond Davis’ CIA affiliation. Check out whom he consults for guidelines on what the NYT should or shouldn’t publish. Bob Woodward, who wrote about secret operations in Pakistan in his recent book [...]
Hillary Can’t Decide Whether to Impose Democracy or Not |
| By: emptywheel Monday February 7, 2011 5:15 am |
On Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told attendees at a security conference that our torturer, Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, should manage the transition to democracy in Egypt. She backed off that stance yesterday. CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller: On flight home from Germany, Secy of State Clinton says “we cannot and would not [...]


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