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“It’s not just that it’s written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent.”
“Black and brown voices for accountability and for change, and particularly around policing, have historically been viewed as deeply threatening.”
From Sunday’s Washington Post (11/28/10): FBI Foils Elaborate Bomb Plot in Oregon Given the circumstances of this particular case (covered in great detail by Glenn Greenwald), I think the Post meant either “FBI Concocts Elaborate Bomb Plot in Oregon” or”FBI Foils Its Own Elaborate Bomb Plot in Oregon.”Even the Post‘s own account explained in the […]
Media blogger Eli Stephens (left i on the news, 7/2/09) has posted on a Washington Post lede claiming that “Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran.” Stephens explains how, as […]
Demonstrating his trademark ability to move effortlessly from belligerent grandstanding to completely fictive political commentary, Fox star Bill O’Reilly claimed on April 22 that current and former attorney generals “Eric Holder and Janet Reno put the wall up between the FBI and the CIA, which led to the 9/11 attacks.” But Media Matters points out […]
A deluge of stories commemorated the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death—from Time to the National Enquirer, from Geraldo Rivera to MacNeil/Lehrer—including over 30 hours of primetime programming. The media took a second look at the possibility of a second gunman in reports ranging from the serious (PBS Nova’s probe of the scientific evidence) to […]
