Clearing the Cache: Hair, Trash, and Potted Plants
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, June 11 2010
- What it might look like if BP had to cope with a coffee spill. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
- According to the Daily Beast, investigators with with Department of Defense are "hunting" Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, prompted, it seems, by their concerns over reports that the U.S. soldier recently arrested for taking information from military networks might have leaked a trove of diplomatic cables on U.S. actions in and around Iraq, Afghanistan and the Mideast. Assange was scheduled to appear on a panel tonight in Las Vegas alongside Valerie Plame and others, but the Daily Beast is reporting that organizers say he canceled some days ago. The strangeness there is that the Wikileaks Twitter account -- which has been commenting closely on the proceedings, including a tweet last night which warned, "Any signs of unacceptable behavior by the Pentagon or its agents towards this press will be viewed dimly" -- posted a note this morning indicating that Assange would indeed appear in Vegas, as scheduled tonight. (The tweet read, "Super panel tonight in Vegas with Julian Assange, Valerie Plame & Scott Risen.") Stay tuned.
- A videographer on the Mavi Marmara posts a full hour of video footage. She suggests that she was able to leave the boat with the material because the Israeli soldiers sent to search the passengers were "young people who didn’t seem to want to be there."
- House Republicans are claiming a YouCut victory with the issuance of a presidential memo on the management and possible sale of federal lands.
- AccessNow pushes out a new batch of videos from Iran, one year past the post-election conflict there.
- And the RNC is requiring beta testers to stay mum on typos and other details.