Time's Joe Klein shoves his foot in his gob on NSA wiretapping
Following up from last week's post about Time's Joe Klein writing a totally erroneous column about NSA wiretapping, Wired's Threat Level does a good job of recapping Klein's abject failure to correct the record, and his editors' stonewalling on his partisan lies:
Klein now has two blog posts and one column (printed in Time magazine) that are all shot through with errors.Link (Thanks, Tom!)Collectively, Klein's postings paint a deceiving caricature of people who are concerned about letting the government turn the nation's telecommunication systems into giant microphones -- something that was explicitly rejected in the wiretapping compromises that followed the excesses of Nixon, the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover.
Perhaps Time's correction writer is out with an extended tryptophan Thanksgiving coma, but when she gets back, she's got some serious work to do.
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"Wired's Threat Level does a good job of recapping Klein's abject failure to correct the record, and his editors' stonewalling on his partisan lies:"
Umm, if I were reading that and didn't know anything about Klein the word "partisan" would leave me with the impression that Klein is a conservative Republican when he is, in fact, a liberal Democrat.
Then you would be wrong, Brian. Good thing that you read it, huh?
Klein is a "liberal Democrat" in much the same way that Joe Lieberman is a liberal Democrat. In his article, he accuses Democrats and their leadership of being weak on national security, based on nothing more than lies he was told by Republican insiders. These lies would have be extremely easy to disprove, if he'd only bothered to try.
If you want to better understand Klein's idiocy (and Time's blatant disregard for the truth), you might want to read Glenn Greenwald:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/27/time/
The system enriches those who lie on command and seeks to ruin those who speak truth to power. Joe Klein is undoubtedly a very wealthy man.