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...Back in the CIB office, Rouse was studying a chart pinned to a whiteboard. The first column contained suspects' names and photos. Then came their addresses, maps and general information about them. As the minutes passed, Rouse waited nervously by the phones in the operations room. "I wanted to get every single one of them," he says, "but my concerns were for the well-being of my guys going through doors." Gradually his teams started calling in. "We didn't have one incident," says Rouse. "We didn't have one officer injured, or any complaints from the suspects about...
Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Brian M. Goldsmith ’05 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears regularly...
...media. What's notable about Election 2004 is how much of it was fought against the media. Throughout the campaign, Democrats complained about an unholy alliance of Fox News, Matt Drudge, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Rush Limbaugh et al., who former contender Al Gore charged constituted a G.O.P. "fifth column" within the press. The flak came from both sides. During their last debate, President Bush chided John Kerry, "I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations," nodding toward moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS. It was a not-so-subtle allusion to the bungled 60 Minutes story...
...conservatives' parallel anti-Bush-bias narrative, of course, mainstream journalists were biased. Its fifth column consisted of snooty élitist media that disdained Bush's intelligence, faith and policies--a fixation culminating in Dan Rather's report, which questioned Bush's Guard service on the basis of documents that the network later had to acknowledge may have been forged. Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS correspondent and the author of Bias and Arrogance, two broadsides against liberal bias, says the suspect documents in the CBS report "made it through all their checkpoints. Why is that? Because they wanted...