Thanks. It's added to a Favorite Sight next to DCLaw1.

The DOD need to tell the truth. The pro-war are crappers,

and would fight-off a panic attach after a good intended smooch.

I'm late again. I'll wear gauze band-aids, bamage, and loose the shoes.

I'll put on a anti-war countenance, and serious, I'd rather be dead that lie like Hell.

P.S. OT. ;~ I had the best yummy garlic and green scrambles egg omelette for b-fast.

Paul in KY and Paul Dirks -

perhaps, if glenn doesn't have a better idea, some of us grateful readers can pitch in and make at least a rough transcript?

after all, many hands make for light work.

let's wait to see what glenn has to say on the topic, but if there isn't a better way and other commenters here are willing to pitch in maybe we can put something together with volunteers.

Glenn:

When Amy Goodman talked to Brown before, his responses to her pointed questions contained more snark than anything else. I'm glad that he was more businesslike today. That he was better than other M$M folks in 2003 is indeed damning with faint praise, in my opinion.

"Deadly dull", indeed. Maybe CNN should broadcast roller derby or arena football if exciting programming is his deciding factor regarding who and what is discussed.

Order in the farm truck, the courts, and on the Interstate highway. o morel!

I'll now be driving 90 miles per hour reading a transcript. Oh the poor cops?

Morels go with anything. 'Guldens' mustard is not mustard gas. Be cautious!

These war-mongers kill anything in their path. 'Um released from damn underground Hades.

If I can read a map with two blurry eyes, a transcript, and drive a truck with a loose clutch ~ Wow!

My $0.02 would be that you took the tone you took, Glenn, to get maximum information out of Mr. Brown. And, I'd argue it worked.

I did crack a grin when Brown replied, "You've got about 9 questions in there." to one of them. I only counted 6 to be honest, but Brown might have been listening more closely ;-)

Like Bamage, I kind of wondered whether Brown prepped for the interview with the same attention to detail that you did. I'm impressed by the caliber of his responses not knowing your questions in advance.

Since I gave up the teevee 10 years ago (with the exception of about 2 days after 9-11, for which I forgive myself), I've never heard/seen/viewed Aaron Brown. I'm sort of sorry now that I'd missed his broadcasts. I'm kind of impressed with the man.

Sorry, Paul in KY. I started to take notes to create a synopsis for you, but I got so engaged, I stopped writing. Maybe someone whose Qwerty skills are better than mine can keep up. If you do have a chance, it is an interview worth hearing.

I had a slightly different take on AB's quote here ... we think of 'the war' now as the thing that has been going on for the past 5+ years, whereas at the time, 'the war' was the thing that was going on for 'weeks not months' (ahem) and everything that came afterwards was something else (inside govt and contractor circles, it was always 'phase IV', referring to the doctrine of stability operations, another loaded euphemism).

That changes Brown's meaning, somewhat. If I read that correctly, he wouldn't be saying that journalism's role is merely technical evaluation, but that the technical eval would happen as the event was ongoing, and then the analysis would follow. Among TV journalists, where ADD seems to be the rule, that seems like a consistent view. Which kind of illustrates the problem, no?

It's kind of sickening that in America, patriotism is confused with a pro-government agenda. This seems to be what is happening here. These people are not propogandists because what they are doing is not viewed, by them or by us, as an attempt to promote the government's particular views and beliefs and ideologies, but it is seen as patriotism.

the Senate Intelligence Committee has sceduled a hearing for next week on FISA.

http://intelligence.senate.gov/hearings.cfm?hearingId=2643

Hearing/Meeting: Open/Closed Hearing: FISA

Date & Time Tuesday, May 1 2007 2:30 PM

witnesses:

John M. McConnell, Director of National Intelligence

Lt. General Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency

Kenneth Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security

The actual top is the “Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008″ and the pdf is posted on the committee’s website (see link above). but check out section 4 - it’s all about FISA. Apparently this administration hasn’t given up on getting what they want.

I agree about Aaron Brown. His was probably the last real news show remaining on CNN. After he was fired, the acronym for CNN, "Contains No News," became pathetically accurate.

The "management" of CNN seems determined to run that once excellent organization into a state of irrelevant inanity via a desperate but futile attempt to capture the Fox News audience.

Oh for the days of a credible old guy reading relevant news stories -- and even making rational inferences and ethical judgments once in a while.

Surely there must be something of interest in the world besides having generals on TV during a war. This is hindsight hysteria of the partisan kind. Lord, could you at least push for EVERYONE to cite credentials and conflicts of interest? Or is fairness just too much to ask? Tsk.

We're living in the Facists States of America where dissent is unpatriotic(and punished). Get used to it. This country has crossed a line and can never go back. The USA is a rogue nation bent on world conquest. Obama will continue the carnage, Clinton will continue the carnage, McCain will escalate the carnage then tour the morgues so that he may drink the blood of his victims. When we are finally brought to our knees and are begging the same nations we have threatened for oil, I truely hope they decline. DC needs to be torched so that we may begin anew. There is no other road to redemption.