We’re hearing from our sources that there’s a pretty embarrassing Day Two version of the story of this ‘lone wolf’ would-be Jihadi bomber that Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced this afternoon. In fact, one source familiar with the case tells our Ryan Reilly the FBI actually declined to take this case several times.
More soon.
A highly placed Dem source tells our Brian Beutler: “Conversations are still happening, but its mostly about how to put this thing to bed.” In other words, what conversations continue are about mainly about how to fail as gracefully as possible, not how to reach an actual agreement.
We continue to get a lot of great feedback on the TPM redesign. And when I say ‘great’ I mean both the positive and the negative, though happily it’s overwhelmingly in the former category. But one of the most common and (to me) interesting complaints is that we got rid of the small link list called “TPM Approved Sites”. This was a list of about a dozen links to other sites that had remained pretty much the same for about a decade and hadn’t changed at all in about five years.
Since a lot of you asked, I wanted to answer just why we pulled it because it was at least in part a personal decision. Read More