Everyone’s a media critic now and its tedious beyond comprehension

Add to that the number of mid-level commanders likely killed or wounded by the pager op, and you begin to sense just how eviscerated Hezbollah will be. Before this, LH considered the most formidable paramilitary-terrorist org on the planet

Whether or not Nasrallah is dead, I cannot think of a conflict in which more senior operational personnel were eliminated more rapidly. As far as I know, Hezbollah didn’t have a mandatory retirement age. A lot of those folks were with the org since the 1980s.

Hope everyone gets a chance to read this one today. My colleague Kate Knibbs visited the Internet Archive IRL. It’s in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

Leading to…an important, previously unpublished, piece of intelligence community history

Investigative reporting is often a slog. But when things come together, it’s absolutely thrilling. Here’s a good example. Lead via unpublished manuscript—>very old obscure docs in internet archive—>declassified doc in Ford Library—>obituaries and old newspaper articles—>archivals papers

Be mid do crimes

@qjurecic.bsky.social real heads remember the Turkish subplot

Remember when Michael Flynn published an op-ed on Election Day 2016 in The Hill oddly calling for the extradition of Gulen

COS Ankara having a day