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Samuel Freedman (Sara Barrett)Pillar of the Intelligence Community
The leak of the U.S. secret prisons program got the "leaker" at the CIA fired and facing criminal prosecution while the "leakee" at The Washington Post was just awarded a Pulitzer Prize. New York Times columnist and Columbia Journalism School professor Samuel Freedman offers insight into the ethics of leaking and advice from his new book, Letters to a Young Journalist, then former CIA analyst Paul Pillar on dissent in the intelligence community. Plus, the latest from Albany and Trenton and the legacy of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum.
Budget Battles
Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times Union and blogger
and
Mike Kelly, columnist at The Record of New Jersey
- on a possible constitutional crisis with the New York and New Jersey state budgets
» Oink (only in New York) News by Liz Benjamin at the Albany Times Union
» A terrorist gets his due by Mike Kelly in The Record
One Who Can Do, Teaches
Samuel G. Freedman, education columnist at The New York Times, professor of
journalism at Columbia University's School of Journalism and
author, Letters to a Young Journalist (Basic Books, 2006)
- on lessons for budding reporters
» Samuel Freedman's website
Pillar of the Intelligence Community
Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst focusing on Central Asia and the Middle East and visiting professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University
- says the administration "cherry-picked" pre-war intelligence
» "Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq" by Paul Pillar in Foreign Affairs
Teitelbaum's Legacy
David Pollock, associate executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
And
Rabbi Yisrael Singer, chairman of the policy council of the World Jewish Congress
- on the life and legacy of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum
» the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
» the World Jewish Congress
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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Squatting, Then and Now
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