The New York Times has dedicated a blog to the many accounts of spying on Americans, wiretapping journalists, consorting with the mob, breaking and entering, plotting assassinations, and other varieties of skulduggery found in the CIA’s “family jewels” file. So far the family jewels–unsurprisingly–have revealed very little that wasn’t wasn’t already known. NYT reporter [...]
General Hayden, former wiretapper in chief and now Bush's nominee to head the CIA, is used to giving orders and not used to such unmilitary institutions as a free press. In his confirmation hearings yesterday he said CIA officers "deserve not to have every action analyzed, second-guessed and criticized on the front pages of [...]
National Review sez:
The CIA has always had a leftist bent, well represented in its upper echelons even under directors of staunchly anti-Communist and pro-national-security orientation.
I wonder whom they have in mind — Bill Buckley? James Burnham? The latter was a Trotskyite, after all, but then, the best patriots often are.
There is a glimmer of [...]
News that the FBI is after Jack Anderson's papers reminds me that Bill Bennett's fondness for jailing reporters has some even nuttier antecedents. Like the plot to kill Jack Anderson. G. Gordon Liddy tells Playboy about it (via lefty blog Elementropy):
PLAYBOY: Why in God's name did you want to murder Jack Anderson in the [...]
Speaking of the New York Times, stashed away on page A25 we find out that the secretary of state — and also Stephen Hadley, Richard Armitage, and Elliott Abrams — might be called to testify in the trial of former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, the duo accused of passing secrets from Defense [...]