I wonder if Ann Coulter's handlers are composing for her a "controversial" and "provocative" op-ed about the glorification of snitches as I type this.
I loved Tom Tomorrow's Ann Coulteresque analogy about Time Magazine's puff piece on Ann Coulter.
I haven't read the details of the story just yet, but I see that it was a top man at the FBI. This confirms an Atlantic Monthly story which suggested just that some years ago. The author speculated that the leaker was trying to stop Nixon from reorganizing the FBI in the wake of J. Edgar Hoover's death; hence, the motive was preserving institutional continuity rather than any duty to democracy. It was about bureaucratic turf rather than the rule of law.
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Date: 2005-06-01 08:12 pm (UTC)I loved Tom Tomorrow's Ann Coulteresque analogy about Time Magazine's puff piece on Ann Coulter.
I haven't read the details of the story just yet, but I see that it was a top man at the FBI. This confirms an Atlantic Monthly story which suggested just that some years ago. The author speculated that the leaker was trying to stop Nixon from reorganizing the FBI in the wake of J. Edgar Hoover's death; hence, the motive was preserving institutional continuity rather than any duty to democracy. It was about bureaucratic turf rather than the rule of law.