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• This is why JMM hired C Bellatoni -- digging for the real story, tightening up the reporting, and walking back
• Too funny! The last para is genius.
• Moe, an editing nit. You need to include in your piece the ID of the 4 senators who wrote the
• Reread the letter. Harman raises questions about the EITs (the subject of the briefing) in her letter. She says "you
• For a wrap-up post, this is seriously incomplete. You need point out that not only did Panetta warn in his
• Zach, if you want to move the story forward, you need to talk with Richard Shelby, who appears on the
• Why am I not surprised that when Greg Sargent asked the CIA today about the background documents for the CIA
• Zach -- I can tell you're feeling defensive about TPM's coverage. But no one (or at least no one I'm
• Re the Late Late Update and the Rockefeller email. So we still don't know when Rockefeller was first briefed, though
• Well, Zach has now at least added an update that notes the asterisk raises a question mark about the accuracy
• We're also relying on Hoekstra's self-serving interpretation of memos and notes that may themselves be self-serving, as both Panetta's cover
• Please, please, don't accept a word in any of the CIA memos without checking with Marcy Wheeler (aka Emptywheel) first.
• 1. Re Webb's background. It's not just that he's Senator for VA. Webb was Sec'y of the Navy under Reagan
• A further comment - having just listened to Bachus' complaint and Geithner's "I'll get back to you" response. Bachus says
• Thank you, Greg! You're right that it has nothing to do with either hedge funds or capital adequacy/leverage. Madoff wasn't

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