Remember all that stuff about benchmarks? You know, measurements of progress by the Iraqi government? Well, that was last year.
There's a new catchphrase in town: "Iraqi solutions." And it means that while the Iraqis might have failed to accomplish just about all the goals the U.S. set, that's OK, and you gotta just roll with it and let the Iraqis do their thing.
Writing for AP News (via TPM), Laura Jakes Jordan reports...
Telephone companies cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time, according to a Justice Department audit released Thursday.
WWKD? Endorse Obama, it seems. CNN interprets this as a snub to Edwards. Complete this sentence:
With snubs like that you don't need ________
Brad Stone at the New York Times says, speaking of telcos...
At a small panel discussion about digital piracy at NBC’s booth on the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and the telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level....
...AT&T has been talking to technology companies, and members of the M.P.A.A. and R.I.A.A., for the last six months about carrying out digital fingerprinting techniques on the network level....
After the session, he told me that I.S.P.’s like AT&T would have to handle such network filtering delicately....
Delicately? AT&T? If you believe that, Bunky, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn you'd be interested in.
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