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SWAT team sent to home of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
A message sent to police in Montgomery County, Virginia on Saturday caused a SWAT team to descend upon a home owned by CNN host Wolf Blitzer, under the impression that someone at the residence had just been shot. The report turned out to not be true, according to The Washington…
Journalist claims Washington Post killed article on Iraq war media failures
The Washington Post has been accused by a journalist of spiking a piece he was commissioned to write about the US media’s failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Greg Mitchell, a veteran journalist and author (see here), claims his assigned piece for the Post was killed and…
Washington Post to implement paywall this year
The Washington Post said Monday it would start charging frequent readers for online access starting in mid-2013, with some details still to be finalized. The move, which had been expected, will require a paid subscription after 20 articles or multimedia features have been read per month, the Washington Post Co.…
Drunk teen shot and killed after friends drop him at wrong house
A teenager who was shot and killed in Sterling, Virginia over the weekend may have accidentally entered the wrong home after a night of drinking. Law enforcement officials told The Washington Post that the drunk teen had been dropped off by friends at a house just two doors down from…
Alleged escort in Daily Caller video: I was paid to make claims against Democratic senator
A Dominican woman who appeared in a video accusing Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) of paying her to have sex now says she was paid to make the accusations, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Nexis de los Santos Santana told Dominican Republic police that she had never met Menendez, who…
How to become a drone target
Earlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: so-called signature strikes, in which the U.S. kills people whose identities aren’t confirmed. While President Obama and administration officials have framed the drone program as targeting particular members of Al…
Washington Post joins list of U.S. media allegedly hacked by Chinese military
The Washington Post disclosed on Saturday that it had suffered a cyberattack and suspects Chinese hackers were behind it, joining Twitter and major US media outlets that have endured intrusions. The Post said in a front page story that the attack was detected in 2011. It said Post company officials…
Rep. Yarmuth: Wouldn’t regret losing my seat over gun control
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) said Tuesday that he wouldn’t regretting losing his seat over tighter regulations on guns and invited the NRA to spend money to oppose his reelection. Yarmuth told The Washington Post that the power of the NRA was greatly overstated. He asked the gun lobby to “please…
Woman reporter’s account of Pearl Harbor attack finally published 71 years later
For 71 years, Betty McIntosh’s first-hand account of the attack on Pearl Harbor went unpublished in the archives of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. According to the Washington Post‘s “The Fold” blog, McIntosh’s editor assigned the young reporter to bring in a “women’s perspective” on the December 7, 1941 attack, but then…
U.S. military to ‘modernize’ nuclear arsenal: report
The US government plans to undertake the costliest modernization of its nuclear arsenal in history, even though the military as a whole is facing stiff spending cuts, The Washington Post reported. The newspaper said there is no official price estimate for the effort to upgrade and maintain the 5,113 warheads…
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