My Kissinger story. Every 6 months, the DC @AP would send reporters to the National Archives in College Park to search through a roomful of newly declassified docs to see if anything 30 years old was newsworthy. I made one such trek in 2002.
The first thing to note is Hamas murdered helpless captives. The rest is not commentary, there is much to consider and discuss but above all: Hamas murdered helpless captives.
I did not know that. I thought surely, this must be known that the US rigged the election in Uruguay in the early 1970s. People suspected, but there was never a smoking gun ... until it popped up on a decades old typewritten sheet at the National Archive. Story in next tweet
On a Rosh Hashanah White House (not campaign) call, Trump calls on Jews to vote for him because he says Democrats will be ruinous for Israel, signs off, "we love your country." story to come.
Defeated primary candidates often disappear. Nikki Fried is all in campaigning for the guy who defeated her. Defeating DeSantis appears, for her, to be more important than licking wounds.
Turns out, it was @GovRonDeSantis’ administration that allowed the “voter fraud” in 2020. And then, instead of apologizing to those he incorrectly cleared to vote, he arrested them.
It wasn’t voter fraud, it was projection.
You literally had to randomly search through boxes and hope something would pop put. I found transcripts of meetings Nixon and Kissinger had with foreign leaders -- notes that Kissinger or others in the meetings would take. What struck me was how much, up close, they were bullies
They made clear to thier supposed peers that they were the big cheeses and they'd better get out of their way. so I wrote the story that way. Buried deep inside was this sentence: "In his meeting with Heath, Nixon ... boasts that U.S. ally Brazil rigged the election in Uruguay."
I’ve been reporting on bigotry - anti-Semitism, racism - for nigh on four decades, left and right and it’s critical but my inner newsperson is here to tell you that what’s immediately germane is that a congresswoman has endorsed the killing of her colleagues.
