Mocking the Pundits, again

Tom "flat earth" Friedman has been regularly claiming that the war in Iraq will turn the corner in the next 6 months since late 2003. I honestly do hope that he's right this time - but I'm not holding my breath.

The full list is here:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2884

Verizon Lying? - depends on the definition of "give"?

Verizon's denial that they've given customer data to the NSA may just be a matter of semantics. If they have left a door open so that the NSA could, in effect, walk in and copy everything they wanted, it amounts to giving it to the NSA.

More here:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/05/after-five-days-of-silence-verizon.html

Oh, then there's this little gem. The president has delegated to the Director of National Intelligence the ability to allow companies to ignore SEC reporting rules. What does that mean? It could mean that Verizon and the other telcos can legally keep any payments the goverment has given them for wiretapping expenses off the books.

More details here:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/17/calls/index.html