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TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump).

On MSNBC’s “Live with Carlos Watson” this morning, TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared in a roundtable with Scott Horton of Harper’s and NBC Justice correspondent Pete Williams to talk about the newly released 2004 CIA inspector general report on torture. In case you missed it, you can watch the clip after the jump.

In case you missed it, TWI’s David Weigel was back on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night, talking about the mainstreaming of the “birther” movement within the Republican Party. Video after the jump.

TWI’s own David Weigel — arguably the world’s foremost expert on and chronicler of the birthers — went on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night to talk about this ever-fascinating fringe movement. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump.). Enjoy!

After my last post about the Columbia Journalism Review’s post on Friday lamenting that most of the media was missing the story on Obama’s disturbing reliance on the so-called “state secrets privilege”, CJR staff writer Clint Hendler, who wrote that Friday post, wrote me to tell me that I’d actually mis-read his story. He wasn’t [...]

Update: I wrote a second post on this topic after talking with the CJR reporter. Here it is.
Reading this post in the Columbia Journalism Review over the weekend, I had to wonder whether what was supposed to be the nation’s premier journalism review hasn’t actually stopped following journalism.
Clint Hendler writes that the Justice Department’s [...]

TWI’s legal reporter Daphne Eviatar made an appearance on the Laura Flanders show this week where she talked about the challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama — not only in shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but also the prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where hundreds of war on terror detainees are [...]

John Judis at The New Republic joins a growing chorus of voices wondering if President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan goes far enough. We’re talking about a massive spending works plan here, and everyone from Judis to contributors to the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog say even more needs to be done. What’s surprising [...]

WASHINGTON — The national news Web site, The Washington Independent, jetted to the Midwest this week. Its senior political reporter, Sridhar Pappu, boarded Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign plane on Sunday. TWI will continue covering the election from the campaign trail — and the air — joining the press corps on both Obama’s and Sen. John [...]

Why, what do we have here, in Eric Alterman’s excellent New Yorker piece about the Huffington Post?
The survivors among the big newspapers will not be without support from the nonprofit sector. ProPublica, funded by the liberal billionaires Herb and Marion Sandler and headed by the former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, hopes to [...]