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Keller: “…not all of them urged us not to publish”

In the continuing firestorm over the decision of the NYT to publish the bank transaction monitoring story comes this important tidbit of information, from Allah at Hot Air: In an interview the NYT’s Bill Keller gave to CNN, he pointed out that three people outside of the administration (who were, incidentally, Democrats – Correction: Tom Kean is a Republican – a commenter whose comment I accidentally deleted pointed that out) were asked to call the NYT about the story prior to its being published to urge them not to publish. Two people of the three did exactly that: urging the NYT not to publish were 9-11 Commission co-chairs Governor Tom Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton......   [Read More]

Hoekstra and Santorum to intelligence community: Declassify more WMD-related documents, and quit downplaying them

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) have an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal asking the intelligence community why they are downplaying last week’s announcement by Hoekstra and Santorum that 500 weapons munitions containing degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent which, even in their condition, remain hazardous and lethal if fallen into the wrong hands, have been found since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They are also pleading with them to declassify more of the document in question, as well as other documents they think are vital for the American people to know about regarding what WMD and documents related to it have been found in Iraq:.....   [Read More]