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1. The Kicker

   “I wouldn’t have known right away that it was your fifth drink…”

   October 2, 2009 09:57 AM

   So said Slate editor Jacob Weisberg upon encountering a several sheets-to-the-wind DoubleX staff in the midst of their experiment to see what a work day would actually feel like if they drank as much as the retrograde characters in AMC’s... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   A win against Cheney secrecy

   October 1, 2009 01:38 PM

   Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington has notched another win in its battle to preserve and expand the reach of the Freedom of Information Act. The victory comes in a complicated case seeking records related to a FBI interview... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Obama Administration Opposing Shield Law

   October 1, 2009 11:50 AM

   Disappointing news today from the New York Times’s Charlie Savage: The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation that could protect reporters from being imprisoned if they refuse to disclose confidential sources who leak material about... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   FOIA Hearing Underway

   September 30, 2009 10:11 AM

   Senator Patrick Leahy has just kicked off a hearing on the status of the Freedom of Information Act, which is being webcast live on the Judiciary Committee's website. Starting off will be a two person panel, with appearances... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Classification policy draft leaked

   September 29, 2009 04:44 PM

   Secrecy watcher Steven Aftergood has obtained a draft version of the Obama administration’s new executive order tinkering with the nation’s classification system. (Downloadable here as a .pdf) As Aftergood writes, the draft “does not represent anything... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   One Possible Contestant for the Post

   September 29, 2009 12:59 PM

   There’s a lot to say about the Washington Post’s just announced contest, “America’s Next Great Pundit.” The set-up is pretty intuitive: submit a sparkling 400 word op-ed on a current news topic, and you could end up... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

   September 28, 2009 05:20 PM

   I’m sorry I missed this the first time around, but Chris Cato, a reporter for Channel 7, a CBS affiliate in Spartanburg, South Carolina, deserves your admiration for the unflappability he displayed earlier this month in what could have been... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   A New Obama Line on State Secrets?

   September 23, 2009 11:54 AM

   The New York Times and the Washington Post chime in with similar articles detailing the Obama administration’s new policy, to be announced today, on the application of the state secrets privilege. The plan calls for... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Redacted: WaPo’s Unprecedented Deal with the Pentagon

   September 22, 2009 03:58 PM

   This week’s news cycle seems certain to be dominated by The Washington Post’s huge scoop: its acquisition of a confidential memo, written by General Stanley McChrystal and sent to, among others, Secretary Gates and President Obama. By obtaining... Continue reading

10. Transparency

    Pinning Down the “Jackass” Tale

    September 18, 2009 04:20 PM

    To be sure, the quote at hand does not address the world’s most pressing issue. But earlier this week, when CNBC’s John Harwood asked the President about Kanye West’s usurping of Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Award win, and the leader... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Fight On, Bloomberg.

    September 18, 2009 10:48 AM

    Bloomberg News honcho Matthew Winkler has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal bringing us up to date on the progress of the outfit's valiant Freedom of Information Act suit seeking the Federal Reserve Bank’s loan records: The... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    West Side Story

    September 17, 2009 10:10 AM

    The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett was recently watching New York City comptroller candidate David Yassky press the flesh when a "familiar face" climbed out of the subway at 72nd and Broadway. Let Barrett, a onetime professor of mine, tell <a... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Mother’s Special Recipe

    September 16, 2009 11:29 AM

    I’m quite fascinated by the fundraising events that the always hungry opinion magazines cook up hoping to liberate some money from their wealthier readers. Think of the Nation cruises, or the Buckley endorsed wine clubs once promoted in the National... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    White House Promises to Reveal Visitor Logs

    September 4, 2009 04:46 PM

    Today, in a truly stunning conclusion to a long series of lawsuits, the Obama administration announced that it will begin to regularly release the vast majority of Secret Service records tracking visits to the White House. Score a big victory... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Whose photo is it?

    September 4, 2009 10:32 AM

    This week, an interesting behind the scenes debate played out between the Associated Press, a deceased Marine's parents, and the Secretary of Defense. NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press is distributing a photo of a Marine fatally wounded in... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    How To Keep Secrets

    September 2, 2009 12:41 PM

    It’s no secret that many think America’s classification system is no longer up to the task of protecting the nation or its secrets. In late 2008, a Homeland Security advisory panel chaired by William Webster—the only person to ever... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Because it’s Friday: Minotaur Edition

    August 28, 2009 03:22 PM

    Politico's Ben Smith passes on this Onion News Network clip, where a panel of Onion-esque experts debate whether or not prosecutions looking into the Bush administration's authorization of a minotaur maze in the interrogation of detainees will "tie the hands... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Play of The Day

    August 28, 2009 10:37 AM

    I see that Greg has just made the welcome and requisite point that after a long period where The New Republic’s back catalogue was marooned and inaccessible on some Canadian server, the magazine’s last ten years of copy... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Transparency Interview: Amrit Singh

    August 24, 2009 03:41 PM

    In May, shortly after the American Civil Liberties Union’s longstanding Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking documents illuminating the United States’s interrogation policies netted key memos from the Justice Department’s office of legal counsel, CJR spoke with ACLU lawyer <a href=http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/transparency_interview_jameel.php?page=all... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Good for him.

    August 21, 2009 09:31 AM

    I'll admit that my initial reaction to the news that one-time New York Times fiction writer Jayson Blair had launched a second act as a Virginia based life coach was much the same as Megan's: a... Continue reading

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