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...During the trial, Maclean's coverage has been dominated by vigorous denunciations of the prosecution by columnist Mark Steyn, a personal friend of the Blacks. Instead of shying away from the appearance of conflict, Steyn positively revels in it. "Yesterday I was chit-chatting with Lord Black on the other side of the Chicago River far from the courthouse," began his Maclean's blog on June 8, reminding readers that his access to Black goes beyond the courthouse steps. In an e-mail interview with TIME, Whyte pointed out that Maclean's has published "stories and commentaries in addition...
...Maclean's is not the only publication whose writers have ties to the Blacks. The Globe and Mail newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, who covered the trial's early weeks, worked for Black at the National Post and Amiel at the Toronto Sun. Then there are the articles written bythe Blacks: the National Post gave Black a column before his trial and ran excerpts from his biography of Richard Nixon, while Amiel has continued her longstanding column in - where else - Maclean...
...never had any business tapping the telephone of columnist Jack Anderson, reading Jane Fonda's mail, or tailing a Washington Post reporter. If there had been evidence of someone breaking the law, it was the FBI's problem. And if the FBI didn't have enough authority to open an investigation, then a President can always go to Congress and ask for stricter laws. Britain's Official Secrets Act, for instance, has kept Britain's secrets off the front pages of its newspapers. Any journalist who knowingly publishes a secret goes to jail. Harsh, but better than making...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
There had been some speculation that Freudenthal would pick the weakest from the field, thus giving his party, the Democrats, an advantage in 2008. But initial reaction to Barrasso's selection has been positive from conservatives. Bill Sniffin a widely-syndicated Wyoming newspaper columnist praised Barrasso's appointment, noting that the new Senator presented himself as "very, very pro-life." Sniffin added, "He's one of those rare people - it's not going to be long before he'll become very prominent on the national scene...