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Things as a professor matter? >> i think it would be unusual if the facts as reported are true. as i said, there has already been a very careful vetting of the validity of the turkish government's request, and this is maybe not even a second bite of the apple, but a third or fourth bite of the apple. so it appears they are trying to create a pretext under some sort of facts to eject mr. gulen out of the united states in order to play indicate the erdogan regime, to soothe the current hostility toward the saudi government in order to appease a regime that our own intelligence community allege h...

Long. on monday the smear machine gave up reviews from rate my professor.com, these were said to be reviews. a protrump side said she was dark, mad, scary and troubled but the only problem were the reviews were a different professor ford. the drudge report and other bright lights of the right promoted this stuff. and this was just the beginning. all week long actual news outlets had to chase down and debunk lies about ford. some of these hoaxes were about straight up trying to discredit her as a democratic activist determined to take down kavanaugh. some of it was about sewing doubt, creating ...

Believes everything she's saying. but that doesn't mean she's right. human memory is notoriously unreliable especially over time. what were you doing one drunken night in the spring of 1982? don't remember? of course you don't. past is unknowable and that's why we have statutes of limitation for crimes. not because our desire for justice dems but because the chance of achieving it does. everybody knows this, the left included. the story doesn't have anything to do with justice actually or even what brett kavanaugh may have done in high school. underneath it all, anyone who lives in washington ...

Majority leader's office, in the speaker's office. but no one ever asked if he or she could have my notes. bob woodward always goes for the best possible sources and notes are always better than human memory. many years later, when i was no longer working in government, i visited bob woodward's home a few times, where much of the space is devoted to his office, where his assistants are constantly transcribing audio recordings. he gave me a tour of the workshop, a place where you can see decades and decades of archived audio recordings, recordings that are the building blocks of the investigati...

Meeting with president clinton and congressional leaders in the cabinet room at the white house. and so his very first question to me was everyone in the cabinet room meeting says that you were taking notes, can i have your notes? if those days there were plenty of reporters who were trying tot get me to tell them what happened in the meetings in thee white house, in the senate et majority leader's office, in the speaker's office. but no one ever asked if he or she could have my notes. bob woodward always goes for the best possible sources and notes are always better than human memory. many ye...