| Ethnic Clashes Spread in Western Kenya
Kenyan men from the Luo tribe armed with machetes and rocks enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching passing vehicles for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. In Kisumu on Monday angry young men blocked roads out of the town, set some houses and buses ablaze, and one driver was burned alive in his minibus, according to a witness. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) .
Saturday, January 12
Jesse Jackson, Jr., who is a supporter for Barack Obama, said the other day that the tears have to be analyzed, that Hillary Clinton didn't cry after Katrina, and these tears have to be analyzed as to, I guess, whether they were real enough, David Brooks. That's not me talking, that's Jesse Jackson, Jr. BROOKS: I don't know if she cried after Katrina or not. She may have. She didn't do it on camera. I think they were real. Look, the people are under a lot of stress. I love talking to politicians after they lose an election, because they're open. And they feel personally rejected. It's like you ask the entire country to date you and they said no. And so I'm sure she was under a lot of stress, feeling a lot of personal rejection. And it came out. I don't know if her upset had to do with what she was talking about at that moment, but she was clearly upset.
Jack Shafer
It was passed to stop CIA turncoat Philip Agee and his comrades from naming the names of CIA operatives around the world. The law mostly focuses on government officials: Journalists can't be prosecuted unless they repeatedly and deliberately unmask covert agents, and, of course, the law only applies to U.S. publications. Once the act passed, fringe magazines such as the Covert Action Information Bulletin stopped naming names, and now we only hear mention of the act when a politically embarrassing leak surfaces in the press or, as in the case of the Novak-Wilson-Plame triangle, a politically motivated leak finds its way into print. I do not know of a single successful prosecution under the act. The hidden good news in the Wilson-Novak-Plame melodrama is that it disproves a thesis that jaundiced readers, myself included, have about the weakness Washington reporters have for anonymous sources bearing scoops.
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