Matthew Keys, 26, the current deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to hack the website of the Tribune Company. (Read the indictment.) The alleged conduct occurred more than two years ago, apparently before he began working for Reuters, and not long after being fired from a Tribune Company TV station in California, where he was a web producer.
The charges are serious and so are the potential penalties, including jail time. In keeping with his role as a social media editor for a major news organizations, Keys is active on Twitter and interacts frequently with other journalists outside of Reuters. So he’s well-known, at least virtually, among social-media-savvy journalists. More soon …
Boehner tells Republicans: Guys, it’s over. Stop trying to defund Obamacare.
A Republican pal says Feinstein didn’t hit Ted Cruz where she should have …
Unfortunately, in the heat of the battle, Dianne Feinstein didn’t make the key rebuttal to Cruz’s lame questions.
Undeniably, I watch CPAC from a certain vantage point. Probably fairly different from that of the attendees. But I’ve watched it remotely and had a roll in covering it for the last five years at least. And this year has a different feel to it. Read More
Turns out that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released quite a few more immigrant detainees in anticipation of sequestration than the agency originally claimed. And while Republican claims that dangerous criminals were set loose on an unsuspecting public were probably overblown, ICE says four people who were among the most serious offenders have been put back in detention.
So apparently Republicans are lying when they say that the Democrats new budget contains the largest tax increase in history.
Dick Morris tells CPAC to give up on abortion, immigration, and a balanced budget.
Ted Cruz mansplains the Constitution to Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein bites back.
I’ve been cautiously watching this. But TPM Reader IL points to increasing signs that — despite the self-inflicted fiscal cliff damage — the economy is moving toward a real take off. Maybe even enough to absorb the entirely counter-productive sequester damage …
At the end of 2012 the consensus among many economic forecasters was that the U.S. economy would experience sub-trend growth due to fiscal tightening from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and any spending associated cuts from a deal on the sequester. Flat fourth quarter GDP numbers appeared to confirm this view. Goldman Sachs referred to this headwind as a “hump” and that the U.S. economy would not move “over the hump” until late 2013 which would then lead to above-trend growth in 2014.