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4/12/2009

Fear and Loathing Lives On

—–Original Message—–
From: Zeke Elvis Jones [mailto:zej]
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:26 AM
To: ‘duke’
Subject: RE: R. Duke

Alas, fond memories of a mad yet simple time. You knew where you were then. You were either bat shit or you weren’t. With us or with the machine heads. Now we sit dumbfounded like blind dingbats gazing wide mouthed at a three decade twisting of up and down, square and round, hot and cold and black and white. Where do you go now? Vegas? It’s fucking owned by GE and Viacom. You couldn’t get real adrenechrome even if you fucked the host at the Liberace museum…. But it won’t last. As the greed mongers continue to suck the last drops of blood from Xanax numbed obese Kansans vilely gorging their third prime rib at the buffet at the horseshoe, hordes of 2nd generation Mexican migrant workers are organizing right under their varicose noses. They’re organized and they’re angry. And as one ersatz palace of pure greed goes dark after another, hording masses of politically organized gangs will charge in from the ex-urbs. And this time they won’t be looking for a $4/hr pay raise. This time they’ll have pitchforks because the whole fucking house of cards will have collapsed. The pinstriped bug-eyed accountants who ejected the greasy haired pitmanagers will panic, and panic hard. No one is safe. Ether and a trunk full of hard drugs and tequila won’t be enough this time. We live in an age whose sterile firmament is about to burst. And anything can and will happen.

My advice to you is to stay heavily armed and meditate. When whoever it is, be it the national guard or HUD comes to take your bank and your town and turn them over to Mr. Burns, ramble, and ramble quickly and like you mean it. Like a southern preacher who just butt-fucked alan keyes. Ramble profusely about markets and free men. About reduced factor input costs and the opportunity to build infrastructure at efficient rates. But make sure you fire at least 7 rounds in the air to let the little bug eyed bugger know you’re serious. And check you tire pressure. It will be a long ride.

—–Original Message—–
From: Gonzo [mailto: Gonzo]
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:05 PM
To: David V
Subject: R. Duke

“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals - and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. ” Hunter S. Thompson

Rite on

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— David V
6:18 pm

Buck the Dominant Paradigm - Take 5

Frank Rich today:

He notes that while the New Deal was built from ideas developed in the Progressive Era and that the Reagan counterrevolution was the culmination of the conservative movement of the 1950s and ’60s, there is as yet “no counternarrative to replace ‘money is king.’ ” The post-crash influx of graduates into Teach for America, while laudable, may be transitory unless there’s the political vision and leadership to make altruistic values stick after our crisis has passed.

Agreed. A rising tide lifts all boats, where as trickle down Reaganomics leads to ruin. So let’s make a counter-narrative.

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— David V
5:46 pm

9/23/2008

Bloomberg reports that -

McCain Transition Head Lobbied for Freddie Mac Before Takeover

By Jonathan D. Salant and Timothy J. Burger
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Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — The lobbying firm of the man Republicans say John McCain has chosen to begin planning a presidential transition earned more than a quarter of a million dollars this year representing Freddie Mac, one of the companies McCain blames for the nation’s financial crisis.

Timmons & Co., whose founder and chairman emeritus is William Timmons Sr., was registered to lobby for Freddie Mac from 2000 through this month, when the federal government took over both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Newly available congressional records show Timmons’s firm received $260,000 this year before its lobbying activities were barred under terms of the government rescue of the failed mortgage giant. Timmons, 77, is listed as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac on the company’s midyear financial-disclosure form.

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— David V
12:25 am

9/17/2008

A Response to David Brooks from Laura Zam

http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/09/16/opinion/16brooks.html?s=2

I am a woman and I am vehemently opposed to Sarah Palin. My opposition, however, has nothing to do with feelings that Wal-Mart shoppers are below me. Most everyone in the US, I would imagine, has shopped at Wal-Mart; it is part of the fabric of our culture. As for Tuscany, isn’t the American dream that everyone can go as far as they’d like? It seems hypocritical then to fault people because they have achieved. Can we please stop this faux cultural divide?

My objection to Palin then has nothing to do with condescension. It is for the reasons Mr. Brooks sites: Palin does not have a world view that would make her an effective leader of the most powerful country in the world. Look what is happening to world markets as U.S. companies collapse? What happens in the U.S. does not stay in the U.S.

I appreciate Mr. Brooks’ courage in speaking truth in the face of pressure on the right to just go along with this V.P. choice. I would appreciate, however, if conservatives would give liberals the same benefit of the doubt regarding our judgement: When we express concern — and terror, frankly — regarding this woman as our president, it’s not because we are snobs. It’s because we understand that this is a critical time in history and we crave an intelligent, wise, experienced, compassionate, forward-thinking, brave, encouraging, skilled, and knowledgeable visionary.

Let’s bag the elitist myth, OK? The country is in crisis and we need people who know how to fix it. Unfortunately, that’s probably not just your average American citizen. Rather, I would hope, it’s people who have been studying national and international matters for many years.

I ask you: Do you think Sarah Palin has the wisdom and abilities of an F.D.R. or a Churchill? If not, then she should not be anywhere near top leadership at this time in our history.

- Laura Zam, Washington, DC

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— David V
5:11 pm

9/13/2008

September Suprise

While the chattering classes and political junkies are all pre-occupied arguing about the relative importance of Sarah Palin’s grasp of the Bush Doctrine, the good folks in Cheney’s bunker are working their little horns off to produce an October surprise in Pakistan. Several news media outlets are reporting that recent cross border raids are part of a US program to beef up efforts against Al Qaeda.

NPR is reporting that:

the raid by helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations forces in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaida leadership.

The plan calls for a much more aggressive military campaign, said one source, familiar with the presidential order, which gives the green light for the military to take part in the operations. The plan represents an 11th-hour effort to hammer al-Qaida until the Bush administration leaves office, two government officials told NPR

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The timing is rather completely obvious and transparent. Perhaps the press will actually focus on that this time.

It’s also ironic to watch the Bush Administration come around to implement Barack Obama’s foreign policy perscriptions. Remember that Obama called for an Iraq withdrawal timeline well before Maliki, and advocated hunting down Al Qaeda in Pakistan while the Cheney crew were still coddling Musharraf. Now the McCain Rovians will undoubtedly distort and exploit this 9th inning gamble. It’s up to the Obama campaign to ask why this is being done now, and not, as opposed to let’s say March of 2003.

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— David V
5:51 pm

7/20/2008

“How I Got Rich in a Year”

Yesterday, I went to see a movie and a play. The film was this summer’s mega blockbuster The “Dark Knight”, and the play, a one woman performance put on by my friend and writing collaborator, Laura Zam.

One had a budget of about 18 billion dollars, the other’s probably capped out at $140 (that’s $140, not $140 million or billion). One could have been great but got mired down in its own contrivances and the other, sublime.

Laura Zam’s “HOW I GOT RICH IN A YEAR, USING THAT SECRET: A PLAY FOR BELIEVERS, SKEPTICS AND SLOBS” is an amazing, witty, sardonic, and uplifting deconstruction of modern life, new age enlightenment, self help manifestos, the scurrilous purveyors of both hope and despair amidst the inevitable outrageous slings and arrows of existence.

I’ve know Laura for many years, and she is co-writing a screenplay with me about New York City in the early 1980s. I was flattered when she boasted of our collaboration at an MPAA screening of my film, “The First Basket”. After seeing her solo tour-de-force, I was both giddy that I had chosen such a profound writer, and nervous that she will soon become too busy becoming a famous author to bother with the likes of my little NY story. Laura has just been signed by a top NY literary agency to write a book based on the play, and “HOW I GOT RICH..” is certainly the stuff of the great American post modern novel.

As we set out writing our little movie (tentatively titled A Million in Prizes), Laura made me read Robert McKee’s “Story”, on film narrative structure. I had sought Laura out exactly because I knew her to be dramaturge, and I wanted the screenplay to be structurally sound. McKee is the screen writing seminar guru in the film “Adaption” (hilariously portrayed by Brian Cox), and his book emphasizes very serious structural theoretics in order to express the great universal truths inherent in one’s story.

Well Laura has done McKee proud. “HOW I GOT RICH…” is overflowing with great universal truths about the human condition. It’s also captivating, entertaining, and Laura’s no holds barred personal revelations are variously incredibly moving and funnier than Gilda Radner on nitrous. In the show she labels herself a performance artist, which she later rejects in favor of “writer and performer”. She is also a superb comedic and dramatic actress, whose stage presence is only topped by her incredible writing. “HOW I GOT RICH…” is everything that theater (including performance art) should be and a much welcome alternative to even the best of this summer’s billion dollar blockbusters.

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— David V
5:25 pm

6/6/2008

Brooks on Lincoln?

Interesting Op-Ed in today’s NYT, but who is he referring to today?

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— David V
10:20 am

5/28/2008

Webbmania or phobia?

With Jim Webb’s name floating high as a possible Obama running mate, there has been a left wing ecstasy reminiscent of Michael Moore’s dreamy eyed endorsement of Wesley Clark in 04. Wow, we finally have actual General to throw at them, so now who’s really tougher?

Like Clark, Webb isn’t all guns and roses. Much concern has be expressed about his fitness and potential vulnerabilities. Kathy G stated the case against Webb well yesterday on the Yglesias blog. It’s not just his brashness on the campaign trail, or that taking him out of a Red State Senate seat would be strategically stupid, but it’s also his “wingnutty” Republican recent past.

The Senate coalition argument strikes me as the strongest. However brash he may be, veeps and running mates play the roll of attach dog (think Cheney and Agnew) in the modern presidential beauty contest, and Webb does this very well. And in a related matter, he gets major points for standing up for our troops while sticking it to McCain, Bush and Co. on the GI Bill.

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— David V
4:49 pm

5/16/2008

Scoring 270

Is Paul Maslin talking about electoral votes or bowling?
Because I think Obama could get to 270 electoral votes, but there’s no way he could bowl it.

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— David V
10:38 am

Even More Distance from Bush

Jamie Rubin writes in today’s Washington Post on the hypocrisy of McCain’s harsh criticism of Obama. It seems Ol’ Straight Talk advocated negotiating with Hamas after their electoral victory two years ago.

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— David V
9:36 am

5/15/2008

HT 4

The Edwards endorsement does seem like the beginning of the end for Hillary. Here’s how it will probably play out:

Obama will get the nomination by the end of this month, but Hillary will not give up in anyway. It will become apparent that she is in fact a Terminator sent from the future. She will brutally kill John Edwards and Ted Kennedy with an electromagnetic health care policy pulse wave, which sucks the air and blood out of its victims causing a slow and cinematic asphyxiation.

Suddenly, as she’s about to terminate the one candidate who would have eventually saved the future by restoring hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger crashes through a wall. It turns out that he really is a terminator from the future sent back not to save Kalyfornia, but to stop HT 4 (Hillary Terminator) from destroying the future of hope.

In the ensuing fight, they crash through walls, overturn trucks on highways and destroy highway ramps and airplanes. Just as it looks like HT 4 is about to terminate the Gubernator by retroactively revoking his citizenship (through a wireless interface with Teledyne Cybernetic Systems), Barack Obama appears and saves him by hacking into the democratic donor database and terminating her funding. She immediately shuts down and Judgment Day is forestalled, but not permanently prevented. We know she will be back.

Really sent from the future?

Can she be stopped?

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— David V
11:54 am

Still Going…

Bush’s not so veiled attack on Obama yesterday serves as good reminder of the divisive and heinous essence of his tenure. Obama has repeatedly said that he would negotiate with our enemies. He has not said he would appease terrorists. He has also said that he would go into Pakistan (”Pokistan”) and get Bin Laden.

So after a disastrous foreign policy driven by ideology, incompetence, distortion, and secrecy, the great divider yesterday did what he does - distorted and attacked. As McCain tries to distances himself from Bush, keep in mind that:

Ronald Reagan traded arms for hostages with terrorists;

The blundering of the Iraq War is the biggest foreign policy disaster since Viet Nam. This statement doesn’t even need any backup; and

Bush’s corrosive foreign policy, which has shunned negotiation, international institutions (like the United Nations and the Geneva Convention) has done great damage to America’s credibility, influence and prestige in the world.

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— David V
11:23 am

5/13/2008

zune v. pod

Ipods are cool and sleek. A timeline of the history of design in the store Design Within Reach has the pod as the pinnacle of the evolution of design. And they sure are popular. But I’ve felt for a while that ipod’s market dominance is more a result of marketing than quality. In fact, in concert with itunes online music distribution, Apple has approached monopolistic dominance in the emerging digital music market. There’s got to be better value for the money.

One of the big problems I have with the mighty pod is directly related to its market dominance. And it bugs me is that almost no one talks about this. A given ipod can only be used with a certain number (3 maybe) of registered computers (that is without some kind of funky and unauthorized software), and even more striking is that music files can’t be transfered from an ipod to a computer. Music can only go from computer to ipod. Once again, that’s unless unauthorized software is used. This is certainly purposefully designed to maintain Apple’s hegemony on digital music distribution which approaches vertical integration. Functionally, this is a major limitation and I’m amazed that there hasn’t been more open criticism. Maybe Microsoft should re-edit the Hillaried re-edit of the famous Orwellian Apple commercial - placing Ipod in the screen where Hillary was.

So I’ve pulled the trigger and ordered the Zune. Both the 80 gig Zune and 80 gig Ipod cost around $249. The Zune gets slightly better average user and reviewer ratings on cnet than the pod. I’m pretty sure that Zune doesn’t have a closed file transfer system like ipod. My major concern is how difficult it may prove to be to import my itunes catalogue into the zune software. I will keep you posted.

Zune also has two cool features that ipod doesn’t: FM radio, and wireless synching and sharing (which probably can be used with any computer).

So to paraphrase a political maxim, when the revolution becomes the orthodoxy, even Microsoft can become the rebel. I wonder how Chuck Berry feels about this…

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— David V
9:11 am

11/7/2005

From the DSCC

It looks like some Senate Republicans forgot to eat their Lucky Charms before going on the Sunday talk shows this morning, because there were a slew of unlucky, unfortunate and even flat-out wrong statements made. From Sen. Hatch completely contradicting a key vote he cast on detainee abuse just last month to Sen. Coburn suggesting that his medical degree gives him some special insight into Judge Alito’s qualifications for the Supreme Court, this morning’s GOP statements fell into the loopy category!

1) ON TORTURE: DOUBLE-TALKIN HATCH TALKS OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH: When he was asked about the dispute between Cheney and McCain on the Senate amendment barring abuse of detainees, which passed the Senate 90-9. Hatch was asked, simply, “Are you on the Vice President’s side on this or are you on John McCain’s side?” Hatch replied, “Well, I’m on the Vice President’s side.” But on October 5, Hatch voted for McCain’s amendment to the Fiscal 2006 Defense Appropriations bill that would “prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment.” [Vote #249, 10/5/05, Face the Nation, 11/6/05]

2) PHASE II IRAQ INTELLIGENCE PROBE: ROBERTS’ CLAIM TO HAVE HAD INTEL HEARINGS PLANNED ON PHASE II PROBE WHITE HOUSE USE OF INTELLIGENCE RINGS FALSE: Pat Roberts said: “We had it scheduled for this week. There was no need for the Senate to all of a sudden pop into an executive session or a closed session and then demand action when we were going to do it anyway.” (Note: The last scheduling notice from the Intelligence Committee that went out prior to the most recent one was on October 21 and made no mention of the Phase II investigation. It was only after Senate Democrats forced the Republicans to deal with the issue that Roberts hastily added three days worth of meetings on the Phase II probe twice a day and released a new schedule that suddenly had Phase II on it. [Face the Nation, 11/6/05, Senate Intelligence Committee Hearings Notices]

3) SCOTUS:

COBURN’S MAGIC POWERS: When asked if “as a physician you can tell whether a candidate for the Supreme Court is telling the truth?” Coburn said: “I think you can certainly tell when they’re ill at ease with a subject and sometimes telling the truth or not. [...] Yeah, I think you can.” When asked if has used those skills to make judgments like that? Coburn said “Mm-hm, I certainly have.” [Meet the Press, 11/6/05]

COBURN SAYS ALITO LEGISLATED FROM THE BENCH? When Meet the Press’ asked Coburn if he thought Judge Alito was right to argue in a dissent that Congress had no role in regulating the sale of machine guns, Coburn said: “No, I think we [Congress] probably have the right to do it. But I don’t think a judge has the right to make that decision. [...]Those aren’t decisions judges should be making. Those are decisions that legislators should be making.” When Russert asked if Alito’s dissent was wrong and whether he was legislating from the bench, Coburn said “sure.” [Meet the Press, 11/6/05]

4) CIA LEAK, BUSH CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS

HAGEL SAYS BUSH NEEDS TO STOP STONEWALLING: In response to what Bush needs to do to regain his credibility, Chuck Hagel said: “I think he gets it back by governing, putting a focus on competent, honest government. …Open it up; don’t stonewall.” [ABC This Week, 11/6/05]

HAGEL SAYS BUSH NEEDS TO BRING NEW BLOOD INTO THE WHITE HOUSE: When asked how Bush should deal with the CIA leak case, Hagel said, “…if I was the president, I think I’d want to enlarge and widen that group, and start making some serious review and inventory of what has happened in the last five years that’s gotten him into so much trouble.” [ABC This Week, 11/6/05]

MCCAIN SAYS ROVE SHOULD KEEP HIS SECURITY CLEARANCE EVEN IF HE SPREAD INFO ABOUT CIA AGENTS: When asked if “it should turn out that there is any evidence that Karl Rove spoke to reporters about a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, should he lose his top secret security clearance,” McCain said: “I don’t think so. I don’t know if that’s a reason to do so…” [Fox News Sunday, 11/6/06]

5) REPUBLICANS WARN THAT 2006 ISN’T LOOKING GOOD FOR GOP:

When asked about new poll results showing generic 2006 Republicans losing to Democrats in congressional races, Newt Gingrich said “I’ve been trying to tell everybody I can find on Capitol Hill and in the White House, if they don’t have substantial change by the State of the Union, and if they don’t convince the country that they’ve gotten the message, I think they’re in big trouble…” [ABC's This Week, 11/6/05]

When asked about Bush’s low approval ratings, John McCain said, “…Congress’ approval ratings are lower than they’ve been in at least ten years as well, so the disapproval is spread pretty widely.” [Fox News Sunday, 11/6/05] (NOTE: Republicans control Congress)

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12:42 pm

Kilgore campaign used faked, spliced robo-calls.

“Honest Leadership” at its best in Virginia

In a move combining the sleaziest elements from the Rove and DeLay dirty trick playbooks, Northern Virginia voters are receiving automated calls they believe are from the Kaine campaign. These fake phonies use spliced audio and distorted facts to deceive voters. As it turns out, the calls are coming from a group called “Honest Leadership for Virginia”.

It turns out that the aptly Orwellian monikered “Honest Leadership for Virginia” is a PAC housed at the Republican Governor’s Association who laundered $2.8 MILLION to the Kilgore campaign.

Also, using dirty trics Texas-style are the Virginians for Jerry Kilgore. They sent out a bogus “2005 Official Democratic and Progressive Voter Guide” that lists former Republican, now independent candidate, Russ Potts as the TRUE democrat and progressive in the Virginia race. Golly gee. Camp Kilgore is clearly worried about the moderate Republicans staying home, or worse, voting for Kaine. They must realize their hardcore rightwing dog won’t hunt in VA any more. Could this race be a harbinger for 2006?

With the polls saying the race is in a virtual dead heat, it really makes you wonder what other sleaze Kilgore campaign has up its sleeve for today and tomorrow.

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— david
12:25 pm

10/31/2005

Lucky 13

Keith Olberman of MSNBC has chronicled something obvious yet interesting:

President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation.

I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event”- a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.

The entire list is required reading.

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— david
11:44 am

10/30/2005

Oil company profits

Right after Katrina, in one of our articles about the need for a real, rational energy policy, one of our brave team members fastidiously pointed out that the spike in energy prices were caused by economics, that no evidence was yet available that shows profiteering by the oil giants, even though it seemed intuitive.

Well now we know. I wonder how much of this is directly tied to Bush Administration corruption?

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— david
10:45 pm

10/27/2005

Men and Women Who Have Died Serving in Iraq

Meet the 2000 men and women have died in the Iraq War face to face, courtesy of the New York Times. Click on “Date of Death” to move month by month from March of 2003 to October 2005.

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— laura
6:01 pm

10/25/2005

Steve Clemons reports indictments coming tomorrow

From The Washington Note

October 25, 2005
Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today

An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source):

1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end.

2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters.

3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and “filed” tomorrow.

4. A press conference is being scheduled for Thursday.

The shoe is dropping.

More soon.

– Steve Clemons

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— david
5:26 pm

10/18/2005

Is Cheney in trouble?

Could the dark lord be going down?

From today’s Daily News:

Cheney may be target of probe

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor’s intensifying focus into who outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday.

At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney’s role in the Valerie Plame affair.

In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the grand jury, including the vice president’s top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.

Cheney’s name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret snitch.

“They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving them all of that,” a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the Daily News yesterday.

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— david
9:41 am