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The Greenwald/Scahill Kerfuffle
Politics is a blood-sport, and you never learn that more keenly than during an election year. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we’re all human beings, no matter what we think of one another’s politics. Sometimes rhetoric gets overheated and politics becomes personal and it’s at those moments, we need…
A few thoughts on Glenn Greenwald, ABLC, Raw Story and the nature of political discourse
I’ve had a lot of insults hurled at me over my many years of writing on the Internet: in addition to the standard ones that women get related to our perceived attractiveness and concomitant perceived intellect or lack thereof, I’ve been called an Obamabot, a Romney shill, a secret Ron…
ABL on The Hal Sparks Radio Program Talking — Ranting, Really — About Lady Business and Drones [Updated]
Today was chock full of ranty goodness. Enjoy. As for me, I’m off to Manhattan Beach to enjoy brunch, the sun, and champagne cocktails with my good friend Ramy. Mimosas! Six Deep! Update: I was so busy this weekend that I didn’t have time to add links relevant to Hal…
Prominent Republicans may be getting nervous about Romney’s chances
With recent polls showing Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney either trailing or at best tied with Rick Santorum in the Michigan primary, some Republican leaders are starting to get nervous. One “prominent Republican senator” told ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl on Friday that “if Romney cannot win Michigan,…
Glenn Greenwald: Journalists have become servants to power
Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional rights attorney, said the media’s reaction to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement highlighted how mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class. “If you look at, say, a host on MSNBC, what you’re actually seeing is a very high ranking employee of…
Greenwald on Awlaki’s killing: The ‘Constitution burned and stepped on’
Salon blogger and Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald appeared on Democracy Now! Friday morning to voice his displeasure over the United States’ killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, a U.S. citizen who was considered a radical cleric for Al-Qaeda. Greenwald highlighted the criticism that President George W. Bush received from the…
Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release
Since the unanticipated release this week, in complete and unredacted form, of all 251,287 U.S. State Department cables held by WikiLeaks, there has been plenty of blame to go around — and the possible repercussions have grown increasingly dire. Most obviously in danger are the informants in places like Iran,…
Bradley Manning supporters rally at WikiLeaks federal grand jury
Supporters of Army Private Bradley Manning rallied outside the courthouse where a federal grand jury has convened to investigate WikiLeaks. The Associated Press reported that supporters of the Army private, who is accused of supplying classified documents to WikiLeaks, gathered outside the courthouse in northern Virginia on Wednesday. Activist David…
Bradley Manning activist subpoenaed in WikiLeaks investigation
A computer expert and vocal supporter of the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks has been served a subpoena compelling his testimony in the Grand Jury investigation of the leaked documents. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald reported that activist David House, one of the founders of the Bradley Manning…
Update: Palantir apologizes for proposal to attack WikiLeaks
The data intelligence firm Palantir Technologies apologized Thursday for its involvement in developing a proposal to Bank of America to attack secrets outlet WikiLeaks. Two other data intelligence firms, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, helped to concoct a plan for a coordinated cyber assault against the website. “I have directed…
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