Horton Hears a “Foolish Statement” by Senator Leahy on “Cablegate”

WASHINGTON – Wednesday afternoon the White Phone got on the record with Scott Horton, lecturer-at-law at Columbia University and Harper’s columnist, after catching an informative at Fordham University panel discussion on C-SPAN. There on October 16 Mr. Horton had characterized the whistleblower status of Army Private Bradley Manning as tenuous. Private Manning’s alleged leaking, Mr. …MOAR!

Vote Looming, National Geographic to Exhibit Dubious, Politicized bin Laden Raid Narrative

WASHINGTON – The trailer for an upcoming film on the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden inaccurately represents tactics and techniques, thereby overstating pre-operational uncertainty regarding the terrorist leader’s hideout presence. While producing “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” which National Geographic plans to air in the 48 hours before Election …MOAR!

“Weev” Auernheimer on Free Speech versus Exploitation

“The beauty of art is that it can be interpreted many ways by many different people.”

WASHINGTON – Andrew Auernheimer, an American gray hat hacker better known as “weev,” tells The Internet Chronicle that his indictment in a New Jersey District Court over a June 2010 AT&T data breach is at its …MOAR!

Not That Innocent

WASHINGTON – In the past month an anti-Islam film trailer for a movie called “The Innocence of Muslims” has triggered a international debate about free speech and the murder of 50 people. The director, an Egyptian national and convicted methamphetamine distributor by the name of Nakoula Nakoula, now faces up to three years …MOAR!

GOP BLOG II

8:30 p.m. EDT – Georgian Attorney General Sam Olens is saying that the individual mandate tells you “what to think.” I’m not sure what to make of that.

8:35 p.m. EDT – Senator John Thune (R-SD) says that when playing basketball President Barack Obama is easy to predict because he “always goes to his left.”

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RNC BLOG – We Built This City on Government Subsidies

WASHINGTON – 7:17 p.m. EDT, House Speaker John Boehner is referencing that President Obama “you didn’t build that” line, easily evoking for me the story of Gilchrist Metal Fabricating, featured in a Romney ad, a company that relied on hundreds of thousands of dollars in government subsidy.

7:19 p.m. EDT – Crowd shots from C-SPAN, …MOAR!

Saudi Embassy: Bandar bin Sultan Is Not Dead

WASHINGTON – A public affairs official at the Saudi embassy in the United States informs The Internet Chronicle that Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian intelligence chief, is not dead.

On July 29 French journalist Thierry Meyssan’s Voltaire Network reported, “Though not yet announced by the Saudi authorities, the death of Prince …MOAR!

‘The Sanest People on Earth’ – From the Internet Chronicle Archives

Signtology

“If it’s not true for you, it’s not true.” – Lafayette Ronald Hubbard

RICHMOND, VA. – By 11 a.m. on April 12, 2008, a variety of sunglasses-wearing characters had showed up, only nine in number perhaps, but persistent nonetheless. Their handheld signs disparaged the tax-exempt status of the Church of Scientology for …MOAR!

From Internet Chronicle archives: ‘The Real World of Virginia’

America

George Allen explains why ethnicities other than his own are important. …MOAR!

In Defense of Homosexuals

Having lived through the ’00s I’ve been exhausted with having to offer defense of a number of people who clearly don’t face any of the supposed self-control problems that have been leveled at them. All of the misgivings that people might launch at adulterers and philanderers have for one reason or another been leveled at …MOAR!