Welcome Captain's Quarters readers: Another kind of CIA-related “outing” took place late yesterday: Mary McCarthy was identified as at least one of Dana Priest’s sources in the CIA “secret prisons” …
Eyes on the Prize (Update)
Among the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes this year were Dana Priest, Eric Lichtblau and James Risen; reporters whose most recent claim to fame is that they revealed the existence of highly classified …
Moving at the Speed of Government
R.N. triggers a flashback: You’ll be happy to know that the new wing is completed. Still has that aircraft carrier feel on the outside (Jacoby’s Naval influence?) but inside is a debacle. Speaking …
Not the best use of resources
The next generation reaches out: Someone you used to work with told me about you and your site and suggested I get your advice. I have a computer science degree from [a selective university]. I …
Serious Time
Latest Daily Standard article is up. …
Not Serious XI
From the new and improved CT Blog: Please tell me this can't be true. I know it is, but maybe if we all wish hard enough . . . mmmmmmmm . . . nope, not working. …
HLS: Serious?
Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials …
Still Kicking
Do you really want a guy arrested for this to be signing books at an elementary school? All sniping aside, I don’t see him weighing in on the archives issue. You’d think he’d have something to say, …
Eliot, making waves
President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. The …
Serious or Not Serious X
In its Tuesday edition, the [Wall Street Journal] reported that a March 1 switch from a national recruiting and hiring system to a more localized one had already left airports at Los Angeles and …