Taking off for a week-long Canadian roadtrip tomorrow, with stops in the Bay Area and the NW.
Category: Legacy
Metafilter thread on the Bush/Wilson bruhaha. Two weeks ago, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson 4th wrote a NYTimes article entitled What I Didn’t Find in Africa about his debunking of the Hussein/Niger uranium purchase allegations for the CIA back in February 2002.
Not unexpectedly, the Bush administration obviously hasn’t been taking that so well, and based on this Nation article, things have taken a turn for the worse. Two senior administration officials have just outed Wilosn’s wife, a CIA agent working under “nonofficial cover” tracking parties trying to buy/sell WMD/WMD material. Well, was working before the White House leaked her name:
Without acknowledging whether she is a deep-cover CIA employee, Wilson says, “Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames.” If she is not a CIA employee and Novak is reporting accurately, then the White House has wrongly branded a woman known to friends as an energy analyst for a private firm as a CIA officer. That would not likely do her much good.
Related:
- NYTimes: 16 Words, and Counting
- Cooked intel revolts spooks – Spooks revolt
- Bush raising wads of money, Expects to clean up in California, too – under the most conservative calculations of his campaign staff Bush will be spending at least $426,640/day, from now until Nov 2004 – that’s over $200M.
- New White House email system: mefi, /.
Careful: The FB-eye may be watching – hearing more an more of these stories. Apparently someone reported him for reading an article entitled ‘Weapons of Mass Stupidity,’ a critique on corporate interests and the media.
Trippi’s partner speaks up: “Any reading material? Papers?” I don’t think so. Then Trippi decides to level with me: “I’ll tell you what, Marc. Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that’s why we’re here, just checking it out. Like I said, there’s no problem. We’d just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can’t, then you may have a problem. And you don’t want that.”
Macromedia + DoubleClick: DART motif; presentation powered by Macromedia Breeze (overview). Don’t much care about the former, but the later is intriguing.
Bug 194582 still cramping my style.
- Norway Heads Quality of Life Index; Canada Miffed
- UNDP Human Development Report 2003 – flash animations, 2003 Human Development Index [PDF], 2002 [PDF]
Canadian media reported that 89 percent of the country had an “absolute conviction that we have a better quality of life than the United States.”
Twelve-year-old Shane Bowman juggles his old heart in Edmonton, B.C., after getting a new one. The hospital allowed him to play with the organ, which weighs 555 grams, almost three times the size of a normal heart.
