more bandwidth than i

* waas: "Did the Bush administration “authorize” the leak of classified information to Bob Woodward? And did those leaks damage national security?
The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) made exactly that charge tonight in a letter to John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence. What prompted Rockefeller to write Negroponte was a recent op-ed in the New York Times by CIA director Porter Goss complaining that leaks of classified information were the fault of “misguided whistleblowers.”"
put that in your pipe porter goss. (waas has more)

* man - i feel like i've had a busy day - 15 posts so far, and my guess is that 90% of the stuff that i do is on background (much more so today than usual) - apologies if the blogging has been a bit weird/sporadic lately. and apologies to those of you who arent really 'insiders' cos you aren't quite privvy about when i'm being side-tracked by other stuff and the posts (and direction) must seem weird sometimes. im sure most of you know, it's actually a full-time just reading stuff and trying to be up-2-date with that - when you add in the research component, it won't surprise you to learn that sucks up an extraordinary amount of time as well - even if you dont consider the dead-ends that we inevitably run into which suck a lot of time for no perceivable benefit - 'thankfully' the people we are dealing with are so horrible that there's usually something under every rock. trying to do 'activism' at the same time just makes things even more difficult. all of which is just to say, thanks to everyone who helps me out by offering tips and/or words of encouragement or by spreading the word and/or pointing others to my blog.

i'm not really sure what my point is - but i guess its mostly a shout-out to the a-list bloggers - the work they do is incredible, literally. if you can afford to support them (or any other bloggers that you like) financially, do so. they have a remarkable skillset - and it continues to blow my mind. they seem to know everything about everything - and somehow manage to actually blog insightfully in the interim - i marvel at the sheer 'bandwidth' that they have to offer. consider, for example, a single comment thread at FDL - any of us could spend an hour or two trying to read and understand and appreciate and contribute - yet all the while jane and christy are also finding new stuff to post and interpreting legal documents and dealing with a thousand emails, and being aware of the details of new scandals and whatnot. truly a feat of nature- they must have more hours in the day than i...

so here's a shoutout to all of them.