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Military’s PowerPoint addiction could be a bad habit for archivists

By Clint Hendler   Apr 28, 2010 at 01:41 PM

We are, apparently, a nation whose Army marches on PowerPoint. As detailed in Elisabeth Bumiller’s Tuesday front page New York... More

Unremarked

By Clint Hendler   Apr 26, 2010 at 03:26 PM

Last Wednesday, General Jim Jones spoke before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Just after thanking his hosts for... More

Pleading with a fifth

By Clint Hendler   Apr 20, 2010 at 02:25 PM

And now for a payment-for-access story from another era of journalism: Let Ralph Morse, then a photographer for Life, tell... More

TOTES HuffPo

By Clint Hendler   Apr 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM

Yesterday saw the premier of "HuffPost Hill" a new email blast from the Huffington Post that promises to be, according... More

No We Scan’t

By Clint Hendler   Apr 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Carl Malamud, the always serious but never boring man behind Public.Resource.Org, a California non-profit which has made countless pages of... More

Dare Not Know His Name

By Clint Hendler   Apr 15, 2010 at 01:24 PM

Today an indictment was revealed in a Maryland federal court charging Thomas A. Drake, a former official with the National... More

The Chicago Tribune Walks

Newly unsealed evidence says the paper was never extorted

By Clint Hendler   Apr 14, 2010 at 06:42 PM

High above the summit of Chicago’s Tribune Tower, the clouds are clearing and the light is shining through. A just-revealed... More

A Quote Unfit to Print

By Clint Hendler   Apr 13, 2010 at 10:10 AM

This quote--in an interesting for its own sake New York Times article on a new generation of clean incinerator power... More

The “Full” WikiLeaks video

By Clint Hendler   Apr 9, 2010 at 09:56 AM

Gawker has a post up noting that 20 minutes of footage are missing from the 39-minute version of the WikiLeaks-released... More

“Too vital to ignore,” perhaps?

By Clint Hendler   Apr 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM

Forget about Confederate history--it's STD awareness month! And fittingly, here's an excerpt from a press release that just landed in... More

WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff

By Clint Hendler   Apr 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM

This morning at an event at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks screened a video depicting a missile strike on a... More

Thin Ice

The man behind WikiLeaks has some allegations

By Clint Hendler   Apr 1, 2010 at 04:38 PM

It was certainly alarming when Julian Assange, a board member for the secret document sharing site WikiLeaks, alleged in a... More

Knoller Knows, Part II

By Clint Hendler   Mar 31, 2010 at 10:56 AM

This morning Mark Knoller, CBS Radio's longstanding White House correspondent, has a well deserved profile in the Wall Street Journal... More

Russian Honeypot

By Clint Hendler   Mar 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM

Micheal Idov of The Daily Beast has an alternately funny and chilling--but really, mostly chilling--tale of how several men who've... More

Congressional Transparency Caucus Launched

By Clint Hendler   Mar 25, 2010 at 04:29 PM

Today Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched a new bipartisan Congressional Transparency caucus. Quigley's office has a seven... More