Following up from last week's post about Time's Joe Klein writing a totally erroneous column about NSA wiretapping, Wired's Threat Level does a good job of recapping Klein's abject failure to correct the record, and his editors' stonewalling on his partisan lies:
Klein now has two blog posts and one column (printed in Time magazine) that are all shot through with errors.
Collectively, Klein's postings paint a deceiving caricature of people who are concerned about letting the government turn the nation's telecommunication systems into giant microphones — something that was explicitly rejected in the wiretapping compromises that followed the excesses of Nixon, the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover.
Perhaps Time's correction writer is out with an extended tryptophan Thanksgiving coma, but when she gets back, she's got some serious work to do.
(Thanks, Tom!)
