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Taliban’s Baradar, in His Own Words

By | 02.16.10 | 10:34 am

Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar — the captured Taliban leader — granted the magazine late last year. A lot of what he says is boilerplate propaganda, but in light of U.S. and Pakistani intelligence reportedly collaborating on his capture, this bit More…

GOP Rep Blasts Newsweek’s Palin Cover

By | 11.17.09 | 4:03 pm

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the GOP’s leading voices against liberal media bias — he heads the Congressional Media Fairness Caucus and keynoted this year’s Accuracy in Media conference – gave a floor speech today attacking Newsweek for running a cover image of Sarah Palin in tight More…

Quote of the Day

By | 11.17.09 | 9:05 am

It’s early, but it’s got to be this from Sarah Palin’s Facebook reaction to Newsweek’s cover, which uses a photo of her clad in workout duds from her Runners World photo shoot:

If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its

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Government Planning to Prosecute About 25 Gitmo Detainees in Federal Court

By | 10.26.09 | 6:00 am

The Obama administration is making plans to send about 25 detainees from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to federal prisons, to be tried in civilian federal courts, according to Newsweek.

As TWI reported last week, the biggest ongoing controversy is over where to More…

Controversy Intensifies Over Rumors of Holder’s Possible Interrogation Abuse Prosecutions

By | 07.27.09 | 3:27 pm

The Washington Post’s editorial today arguing for prosecution only of “those who went well beyond the often-extreme measures authorized by the [Office of Legal Counsel] memos” that justified abusive interrogations is calling more attention to the rumor, first reported by Daniel Klaidman in Newsweek, that Attorney General Eric Holder More…

Who’s in Charge — Bush or Obama?

By | 01.30.09 | 7:06 am

President George W. Bush’s former aide and adviser, Karl Rove, has reportedly been instructed to ignore another congressional subpoena, this one issued earlier this week by Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan). According to Newsweek, Bush’s lawyer, former White House counsel Fred Fielding sent a letter Jan. More…

What If Newsweek Editors Were Waterboarded?

By | 01.12.09 | 9:37 am

I really hate writing posts about the media. It seems to me that complaining about the press is a distraction from engaging with the actual issues at hand. Yes, more often than not the press sucks, everyone knows it, the point is made, we factor it into our reasoning and More…

Todd Palin Still his Wife’s Adviser?

By | 11.10.08 | 12:05 am

In Newsweek’s seven-part series chronicling the juicy, behind-the-scenes moments of the presidential campaign, there was an interesting nugget about Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd Palin:

More From Newsweek: Debate Format and Climate Change

By | 11.07.08 | 1:33 pm

Many are fascinated by the behind-the-scenes campaign news/gossip reported in Newsweek’s election special. One of the more interesting tidbits to me was that both candidates were somewhat uncomfortable with the format of the presidential debates.

Newsweek reports this quote from Barack Obama while he was preparing for a debate — More…