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Tuesday 30 October 2007

During the 2004 presidential campaign, when 60 Minutes was caught using a questionable document to prove its charge that Bush had wiggled out his National Guard responsibilities, a conservative blogger figured out that the typeface on the memo did not exist in the early 1970’s. A blogger broke the story which made CBS look bad and emboldened Bush supporters to vote. In contrast, a few weeks ago, when bloggers like myself and others broke the story of the unprecedented redaction of embarassing FBI shenanigans from a court ruling, the media snoozed through it. While 60 Minutes was stretching the truth to prove something which most of us already knew to be true (that Bush finagled his way out of military service), the Higazy/court story exposed by the bloggers told us something we did not know: that even the courts are bending over backwards to accommodate the government in the post-9/11 world, even on questions that do not appear to threaten security. Steve Bergstein

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