I’ll be working tonight to hit a Wired deadline, but if you’re in D.C., you should come out at 7 p.m. to the National Press Club, where the Miami Herald‘s Carol Rosenberg and others will discuss covering Guantanamo Bay and the ground rules under which reporters operate.

Via Glenn Greenwald, John McQuaid tweets: WaPo’s failure to acknowledge earlier journalism on the privatization of intelligence is all about winning prizes cc @TimothyS I can’t speak to the Post’s motivations. But there’s an unfortunate and archaic tendency in old-school media to avoid referencing the work of other reporters when possible — sometimes a piece [...]

This post from Matthew Yglesias about something I wrote for Danger Room today concerning prospective robot-driven military convoys provides an opportunity for clarification. Yglz: Automation technology is promising for military purposes primarily because it’s promising overall. But while Japanese robots clear snow and bolster the spirits of senior citizens, we’re working on warbots to facilitate missions we [...]

Good idea from Ezra Klein: This is a baffling waste of good information. Reporters are endlessly interviewing newsmakers and then using, at most, a handful of lines out of thousands of words. The paper, of course, may not have room for thousands of words of interview transcripts, but the Web certainly does. Nor does it [...]

To Yochi Dreazen, an excellent military and national-security reporter with the Wall Street Journal who, an emailed announcement informs me, is going to the (apparently revamping) National Journal to continue his excellent coverage. Just a great hire by National Journal, and one that speaks very well of its editorial judgment.

A couple days ago, commenter Pococurante took me to task, as he has in the past, for not banging the table against Hamas and Hezbollah when I write about Israel. And it kind of pissed me off, as I thought it was a dodge from the criticisms I offer of Israeli strategy. But now I’m [...]

Tom Ricks quotes this piece of advice from Fred Reed about the absurdity of defense journos believing themselves to be world-historical figures: It’s the reporter’s disease: You come to believe that the Secretary of the Air Force wants a press breakfast with you because he respects the depth of your thought. No. He thinks you [...]

I know I said I wasn’t going to repost my Danger Room stuff mid-day, but this is the most comprehensive account out there of the un-banning of my colleagues Carol Rosenberg and Steve Edwards from Guantanamo Bay. Yes, Steve too. Michelle Shephard told me she’s still waiting to hear. And I wasn’t able to get [...]

My friend Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star is still banned from Guantanamo unreasonably. Yet she still beats the rest of the Guantanamo press corps by reporting that once again, Omar Khadr has fired his lawyers. According to her piece — and she wrote the book on Khadr — it’s a sign of his resignation [...]

OK, I like Ben Shpigel’s Yankees coverage for the New York Times, but this is getting absurd. From today’s write up of the Yanks’ win over Seattle last night: Rodriguez is no longer just climbing the career home run list. He is scaling it at a feverish pace, crushing two mammoth blasts to the nether [...]