That doesn't smack of uninformed opinion, it smacks of planted stories by the Mike McConnell faction.

All the more reason to uncover the source. Am I correct in understanding that Hoeckstra might be Klein's source? Or do you think he is simply supporting Klein and his "story" because it's part of his own agenda? Or do you think there is another more bureaucratic source? (But if that was the case, wouldn't the story have been more artfully written?)

You've (all) contributed some amazing research and critical thinking on this issue. Kudos!

Maybe it's really more like a hostile takeover? Given not just Klein's apparent manipulation, but also this story on the State Department's use of plagiarized materials to produce their report:

http://www.americablog.com/2007/11/breaking-state-department-official-iraq.html

BREAKING: State Department official Iraq update is really compilation of plagiarized major media articles

by John Aravosis (DC) · 11/28/2007 02:43:00 PM ET

Kind of pathetic when the official report from the US State Department on what's "really" happening in Iraq is actually just a bunch of plagiarized paragraphs from the major media in the US. To wit, the following analysis an anonymous friend just sent me. I just checked it out and he's right. State outright plagiarized much of the major media in making its "report." And what's really funny, they even stole a number of paragraphs from a New York Times article when, as I recall, the NYT is the newspaper that George Bush refuses to read because it supposedly has such a "liberal bias."

. . .

Any means, right?

From Joseph Palermo at Huffington Post, the final paragraph of his post on the Newsweek hiring of Karl Rove:

In her blog yesterday, Arianna Huffington pointed out that Rove's take on recent history is a "shameless, remorseless, soulless attempt to rewrite history." But it is actually even worse than that because Rove did not "attempt to rewrite history" so much as he just lied about what happened five years ago. Rove was trying to throw his own dirty laundry at the Democrats (as he always does). And in the process he exposed for all to see his utter contempt for the American people. Rove obviously believes that Americans are so dumb they have no memory of what happened last week let alone five years ago. Therefore he can test the limits of the collective subjectivity of our political discourse, and the malleable nature of "truth," and just make shit up on PBS.

And this guy is going to be a regular columnist for Newsweek magazine?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/karl-rove-and-michel-fouc_b_74611.html

In light of this recent kerfluffle with Time, can we possibly imagine what other delights [besides his accusation that the Democrats politicized the run-up to the invasion of Iraq] Mr. Rove might have in store for us? Or which prosecutorial techniques Glenn will inventively employ to push back? Probably not... as our imaginations surely cannot run that wild.

I'll have mine without butter.

there's a whole host of posts on Greenwald, et al vs. Klein and Time. This story has virtual legs.

I decided to take a look at Technorati, something I haven't done in awhile, and to-date, there are about 170-some hits for a search of: Joe Klein and Glenn Greenwald.

Anyone with a little extra time on their hands might want to see if there are any posts they've missed:

http://technorati.com/search/Joe%2BKlein%2Band%2BGlenn%2BGreenwald?authority=a4&language=en&page=2

A few conservatives have weighed in, too.

Thanks for that link to the Taibbi interview, bystander! It was well worth it. I still have to go back and finish up the other embedded links.

Since you're all coming up with an irony-themed reading list for Bush and members of his maladministration, I'd like to nominate a few, too:

Heart of Darkness

Catch-22

Slaughterhouse Five

Lord of the Flies

The Things They Carried

You read my mind again. I was wanting some iron, too, feeling a bit anemic. So, I bought a couple of lamb loin chops and had them with a sweet potato. I used a cast-iron griddle. For the chops. Not the sweet potato.

Toothpicking the sage and prosciutto to the cutlets was fussier than I usually like to put up with, but it was worth it. I don't know about the iron content, but I suspect that it's a match for your lamb chops on the sybaritic index.

Indubitably.

Sometimes that index is more important. I wish I could have seen the sage- & prosciutto-dressed cutlets. [Do you have a flickr account?] I kept it simple tonight (just a dash of Herb-a-Mar) and some olive oil.

I only had two chops-- I probably could have eaten another one.

These comment threads are both nourishing and educational. Not many blogs can boast that.

I couldn't add anything to the odes to beer-- no wheat makes it too complicated-- but, in keeping with the theme of the rainfall statistics, I do like to read, on occasion, the Beaufort Wind Scale. You might like it, too. The concrete comparisons between land and sea are almost poetic.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/beaufort.html

Thanks for the tip. I had to go and look-see for myself. Yup. He did it again. Incredible.

Too bad that Joe kLIEn seems to have such an anathema for Salon's writers. Otherwise, he might have read a truer picture at Tim Grieve's War Room, rather than embarrass himself by relying so heavily on FauxSnooze and the Politico.

http://salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/11/30/murtha_richardson/index.html

Eventually, I do think that kLIEn will learn, but the curve seems to be particularly high in his case.