Editors’ Blog - 2013
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.
05.14.13 | 1:35 pm
Better Answer, Please

As we reported a short time ago, those blockbuster White House emails which showed the White House aggressively massaging the fabled Benghazi talking points turn out to have been doctored. Doctored, edited, choose your verb. They were altered to make it look like the White House was more focused on the talking points than it actually was.

So what happened. A short time ago, ABC responded and said basically, what’s the problem? “Assuming the email cited by Jake Tapper is accurate, it is consistent with the summary quoted by Jon Karl,” an ABC spokesperson told Erik Wemple of the Washington Post. Read More

05.14.13 | 4:44 pm
WTF?

Soldier assigned to coordinate sexual assault prevention at Ft. Hood under investigation for “abusive sexual contact” and being a pimp.

05.15.13 | 2:48 am
‘All Hell Broke Loose’

It’s still not clear why the news of the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of conservative groups broke when and where it did last Friday — and no one was as perplexed as those in the audience when it happened. Eric Lach reports.

05.15.13 | 3:01 am
Nothing To See Here

Senator’s letter to constituent elides his vote against background checks.

05.15.13 | 3:41 am
Visiting from the Future

Yesterday the US Navy made it first attempt to launch a fully-autonomous carrier-based Navy Drone. Check out the photo here. Both visually, and in terms of its intended use, it goes a lot further toward something like an unmanned fighter jet than what we normally think of as a drone. Take a look.

05.15.13 | 4:06 am
Two Stories Not To Miss

Two stories not to miss from yesterday.

First, with that White House emails brouhaha last week about Benghazi. ABC said they’d seen the actual emails when they hadn’t. They’d only seen written summaries, apparently by an unnamed GOP staffer.

Second, remember the deficit? Lost in yesterday’s news, it’s falling rapidly, on track to be the lowest since the Bush administration and falling again next year. Turns the entire Washington narrative on its head.

05.15.13 | 4:26 am
We Needed Some Meta-Comedy

Rubio blasts press for being more interested in AP probe than ‘Benghazi’. Watch.

05.15.13 | 5:30 am
Umm

AP: “A South Korean presidential spokesman who was fired after inappropriately touching a woman during a U.S. trip blames a “cultural difference” with America.”

05.15.13 | 5:36 am
Hard Out There for a Pimp? WTF?

Last week we had the story of the top Air Force officer charged with preventing sexual assault in his service arrested for groping the breasts and butt of a women he accosted in a parking lot. Now we’ve got an even bigger WTF moment. The guy in charge of leading anti-sex harassment efforts at Ft.Hood in Texas is being investigated for sexual assault AND driving female soldiers into prostitution and acting as their pimp.

05.15.13 | 6:13 am
Boehner: Who’s Going to Jail at IRS?

Boehner: “My question isn’t about who’s going to resign. My question’s about who’s going to jail?”