Mark Danner, Spiral

At Amazon, Mark Danner, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War.

Charles R. Lister, The Syrian Jihad

At Amazon, Charles R. Lister, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency.

Conflict with Islamic State Intensifies: Local Troops Fighting in Syria and Iraq (VIDEO)

Via ABC News 10 San Diego:

Akhil Reed Amar, The Constitution Today

At Amazon, The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era.

I'm intrigued by this, since for one thing I teach the Constitution every semester, and of course, students know little about it, considering how little constitutional history is taught. But I'm also intrigued by how the Reed Amar book can be contrasted to Terry Moe's new book, Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government — and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency. (Hat Tip: PJ Media, "Stanford Professor on Constitution Day: Following the Founders is 'Dumb'.")

Admiring the Constitution isn't dumb, of course. It's that society has changed so much that government leaders are empowered to blow off the checks their supposed to follow, especially the checks on presidential power.

Here's the blurb from The Constitution Today at Amazon:

America’s Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires “to endure for ages to come.” The daily news has a shorter shelf life, and when the issues of the day involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly.

In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America’s preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades and provides a passionate handbook for thinking constitutionally about today’s headlines. Amar shows how the Constitution’s text, history, and structure are a crucial repository of collective wisdom, providing specific rules and grand themes relevant to every organ of the American body politic. Prioritizing sound constitutional reasoning over partisan preferences, he makes the case for diversity-based affirmative action and a right to have a gun in one’s home for self-protection, and against spending caps on independent political advertising and bans on same-sex marriage. He explains what’s wrong with presidential dynasties, advocates a “nuclear option” to restore majority rule in the Senate, and suggests ways to reform the Supreme Court. And he revisits three dramatic constitutional conflicts—the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the contested election of George W. Bush, and the fight over Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act—to show what politicians, judges, and journalists got right as events unfolded and what they missed.

Leading readers through the particular constitutional questions at stake in each episode while outlining his abiding views regarding the Constitution’s letter, its spirit, and the direction constitutional law must go, Amar offers an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand America’s Constitution and its relevance today.

Donald Trump Ends the Controversy, Says Barack Obama Born in United States (VIDEO)

I expect the story will continue to get play over the weekend, but by Monday it's going to be a blip on the radar.

Donald Trump appears to be moving on.

See the big report from last night's World News Tonight:

Ben Shapiro's Seen the Light?

Remember, if you're voting Hillary you're not conservative. And frankly, if you're not voting for Donald Trump you're no conservative either, at least in my book, since to be conservative today means to stop the leftist destruction of the country and try to set America back on the right track. Donald Trump at least gives us a chance.

So, it's amazing how Ben Shapiro, who was one of the biggest, ugliest, and most vicious critics of Trump and the Trump movement during the primaries, is now singing the virtues of the surging Manhattan mogul.

At the Daily Wire, via Memeorandum, "Trump Trolling Master Class: ‘Obama Was Born In The United States. Period.’"

Kristen Keogh's Saturday Forecast

The weather's been just perfect. Sunny, warm, and pleasant.

Via ABC News 10 San Diego:

Millennial Voters Turning Away from Hillary Clinton

The entire Democrat Party establishment is freaking out right now, and all they can do is scream and throw toddler tantrums about this idiotic "birther" story that no one cares about.

Soros-backed Media Matters is urging MSM hacks not to let the birtherism controversy fade away, "Seven Reasons the Media Shouldn't Let Trump Move on From Birtherism."

Seriously, all of this reeks of the most craven desperation. It's really ugly. But then, Hillary turned this campaign into a collective attack on alleged "white supremacy" and "racism," so it's no surprise it's come to this. Shoot, you'd think there weren't any important issues facing the country.

Young voters aren't warming up to the Democrat ticket no matter how hard Hillary throws down the race card.

At WSJ, "Millennials Have Cooled on Hillary Clinton, Forcing a Campaign Reset":

FAIRFAX, Va.— Hillary Clinton’s once-commanding lead among young voters has nearly collapsed, several polls show, a factor making the presidential race much closer in recent weeks and prompting the Clinton campaign to move quickly to keep a core Democratic constituency in the fold.

In its most visible response, the campaign has begun sending the party’s most popular stars to college campuses to urge students not to sit out the election or back third-party candidates, who are drawing support from young voters.

“Elections aren’t just about who votes, but who doesn’t vote, and that is especially true for young people like all of you,’’ first lady Michelle Obama said Friday during a campaign event at a university in Virginia, a battleground state where polls show the race tightening.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a sensation among younger voters during the Democratic primaries, will campaign for Mrs. Clinton this weekend, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal icon, will attend events this weekend at two Ohio universities.

Mr. Sanders previewed his message on Friday, saying he will urge young voters to look past the candidates’ personalities and instead consider Mrs. Clinton’s proposals for debt-free college and for raising taxes on the wealthy to fund government programs.

“I would just simply say to the millennials, to anybody else: Look at the issues. … Stay focused on the issues of relevance to your life,’’ Mr. Sanders said on MSNBC.

The outreach comes as polls show younger voters moving away from Mrs. Clinton. Among those under age 35, Mrs. Clinton’s lead over Republican presidential rival Donald Trump fell from 24 points in late August to just 5 points this month in Quinnipiac surveys. That was one reason her overall lead among likely voters fell from 7 points to 2 points.

Similarly, Mrs. Clinton bested Mr. Trump by 27 points among voters under 35 in a Fox News survey in early August. That lead fell to 9 points in a new Fox News survey.

The trend is appearing in some state-level surveys, as well: In a new poll of Michigan voters, Mrs. Clinton’s 24-point lead among young voters a month ago fell to 7 points. That change helped account for why her 11-point lead among voters overall fell to 3 points in the survey, conducted for the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ.

Gary Johnson, the libertarian candidate, is picking up many of the young voters who had backed Mrs. Clinton. In the Quinnipiac poll, he drew a significant 29% of likely voters under age 35, up from 16% in August. He trailed Mrs. Clinton by only 2 percentage points among those voters, a sign of how potentially damaging he could be to her campaign.

Mr. Johnson’s support overall remains low, and the Commission on Presidential Debates said Friday that both he and Green Party candidate Jill Stein had failed to qualify for the first debate, citing its requirement that candidates have at least 15% support in five predetermined national polls.

Mrs. Clinton struggled to win young voters in the Democratic primaries against Mr. Sanders, who won nearly three-quarters of those under age 30, exit polls showed. President Barack Obama won 60% of voters under 30 in the 2012 election.

These voters may now join the list of trouble spots in the electorate for Mrs. Clinton, along with white, working-class voters, particularly men...

Well, good.

I'm kicking myself at the hilarity of it!

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Donald Trump’s Electoral Map to Victory

Hey, don't get cocky kid (as Instapundit loves to say).

 At U.S. News and World Report, "Trump’s Electoral Map to Victory, Yes He is Going to Win":

Donald Trump’s path to the White House has gained growing plausibility with a flurry of poll numbers showing the Republican nominee on the ascent over Hillary Clinton in some of the most crucial battleground states.

Trump’s new momentum is the product of a hazardous period for Clinton, in which she earned fervent backlash for deriding half of his supporters as belonging in a “basket of deplorables” and then nearly collapsed in public while fighting a previously undisclosed bout with pneumonia that renewed lingering questions about her health and took her off the campaign trail for most of this week.

Three polls showing Trump inching ahead in Ohio, survey results placing him in the lead in Florida and still another poll giving him a slim advantage in Nevada have jolted hardened perceptions about the race 11 days before the first debate in Hempstead, New York. Additionally, a CBS News/New York Times survey of the contest released Thursday found the candidates statistically even nationally, knotted at 42 percent apiece.

Many political observers who concluded the race was slipping out of Trump’s reach after his disastrous August are now recalibrating their opinions and wondering how Clinton will stop her own September slide – a stark indication of how volatile the campaign remains with more than seven weeks until Election Day.

"Hillary's just not a very good candidate. She doesn't have campaign skills, comes off as shrill, and has a cloud hanging over her," says Scott Reed, the senior political strategist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Trump has "shown a new level of message discipline. That's why this election has tightened up."

Polling out of Ohio – where surveys are now tracking Trump ahead by 3 to 5 percentage points – set off alarm bells within the Clinton campaign, which suddenly announced it was dispatching Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Clinton's former rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, to the Buckeye State this weekend to pitch the former secretary of state to young voters uninspired by her candidacy. Warren and Sanders will promote Clinton's plan to make college debt-free across five cities on Saturday.

"We always expected the race to tighten up," Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said on a conference call Thursday. "They call these 'battleground states' for a reason. They are going to be hard-fought."

A Bloomberg survey of Ohio found that a higher proportion of men and older voters are indicating their likelihood to cast ballots – a glaring sign that Clinton needs to rally younger voters and minorities in order to offset that surge benefiting Trump, whose victory is predicated on garnering an unprecedented portion of the white vote.

Liberal advocates also are openly expressing worry that millennials ages 18 to 34 – 45 percent of which are minorities – don't recall or care that the last sustained era of economic prosperity occurred under President Bill Clinton.

"My concern is that they're not turned on to participate," Maria Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, said at a Brookings Institution event in Washington on Wednesday.

Facing little room for error, Trump's climb remains uphill, but Republican strategists are beginning to see an emerging electoral map that would allow him to squeak out a victory.

Trump must hold all 24 states carried by Mitt Romney in 2012 and add Ohio and Florida to the tally. A loss in Florida, Ohio or in increasingly competitive North Carolina – which Romney carried by just 2.2 percentage points over President Barack Obama – would hand Clinton the presidency.

Virginia, the fourth-most competitive state in 2012, has drifted into Clinton's column, analysts believe...

I'm not getting too excited about this.

Now, like I said before, if Pennsylvania looks likely to flip to Trump on election day, I might get a little more emotional. I suspect the Keystone State would perform a bellwether service in that case, with perhaps even a couple more surprises to come as well.

Still, Trump must run the table, so to speak. He's got no margin for error. His election frankly will need to look like a tsunami. That's not the case for Hillary, although they're shitting bricks either way.

More.

Donald Trump Rickrolls MSM Hacks

From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "JAKE TAPPER: THAT TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE WAS A “POLITICAL RICKROLL”."

And at Power Line, "TRUMP OUTSMARTS THE PRESS."

And watch, at A.P., "Trump Drops Birther Theory, Scores Press Coup":

Donald Trump scored a coup against the media Friday, convening the press at his new Washington hotel after promising a big announcement, but delivering just a brief acknowledgement that President Obama was born in the U.S.

Frankly, the whole renewed "birther" controversy is a manufactured media event to help salvage Hillary's sinking campaign. And the utter partisan transparency is absolutely ridiculous.

Notice how the New York Times is going with how Trump "clung" to the lie for all these years, only to disappoint the idiot press corps by conceding Obama was indeed born in the U.S.

Just amazing. Absolutely amazing all of it, and a knee-slapper for Trump supporters.

Well played, Mr. Trump. Well played.

Media: Trump played us for chumps!
US: yeah, it was hilarious
Media: no, it's bad for USA b/c reasons😨
US: no, you're bad for USA. Get bent🤗

— #JeSuisJuive (@lamblock) September 16, 2016

QVC Model Sammi Marsh-Wade Becomes Internet Sensation as Her Skimpy Slip Leaves Practically Nothing to the Imagination

At London's Daily Mail, "QVC model becomes an internet hit as her skimpy slip leaves VERY little to the imagination":

A model revealed more than she was hoping to when she appeared on the QVC shopping channel.

Donning a tight-fitting grey slip, which aims to give you a flawless figure under your clothes, Hampshire model Sammi Marsh-Wade was not aware that her nipples were clearly visible.

Due to the tightness of the dress, little was left to the imagination and eagle-eyed viewers quickly pointed out the wardrobe malfunction online.

In the clip, the two presenters say that bodysuits are making a bit of a comeback - calling the slip 'very Hollywood' and 'glamorous'.

The QVC sales segment encouraged viewers to buy the tight grey slip - but it has become popular for an entirely different reason.

The thin and tight nature of the dress meant that the 26-year-old Sammi's nipples were visible through the material and viewers even unkindly pointed out that her nipples were 'uneven'.

More.

Brazilian Model Paola Antonini Bikini Photos

At Drunken Stepfather, "PAOLA ANTONINI ONE LEGGED MODEL OF THE DAY":

Paola Antonini seems to be a Brazilian model…or social media influencer and she’s got one leg….She lost her leg two years ago after being hit by a drunk driver…sad story, but she’s hot and she’s a survivor…and she has proved that when you’re hot you don’t need legs..you can still look hot as fuck and dudes will still fuck you…in fact – they’ll celebrate fucking you – because you don’t have a leg to get in the way of deep dick penetration, even for small dick…great access to the vagina…

Well, they're very explicit about the benefits of going out with a one-legged model, heh.

More at London's Daily Mail, "Amputee model whose leg was crushed by a drunk driver is hailed as a 'warrior' on Instagram after posting bikini photos to show off her prosthetic limb."

False Equivalence in Media Reporting on the 2016 Election

Partisans are never happy with the media coverage of their candidates, and it's one of the Big Lies of 2016 that leftists never demonized folks like George W. Bush or Mitt Romney the way they've demonized Donald Trump this year. The assumption is that Trump is the worst Republican even, but frankly, to leftists, the GOP nominates Adolph Hitler every four years. So these people can just STFU.

It is true though that the leftist media does seem more unhinged than in years past, and I think that's largely because Trump's given voice to harsh partisans like the Alt Right hordes in ways that haven't been seen in recent presidential contests. So, we've seen a number of prominent press personalities come right out and advocate for partisan reporting favoring their side. The only difference this year is that media leftists aren't hiding their bias, again for the reason that Trump perhaps freaks them out more than usual. But it's not as though we haven't had the subterranean "JournoList" phenomenon subverting media coverage of elections in the past.

In any case, Liz Spayd, the Public Editor at the New York Times, tackles the problem, "The Truth About ‘False Balance’."

Congressional Black Caucus Slams Donald Trump for 'Birther' Racism (VIDEO)

I was alternating on and off with the mute button while this segment was live on CNN. My wife was getting ready for work and she just couldn't listen to these black racist harpies yammering on about birtherism. I mean, who freakin' cares? It's a made-up issue, resurrected by a stupid article in the Washington Post yesterday. We've got way bigger issues to be talking about, but leftists want distractions about "racism" because it helps their disastrous candidate, "Hacking" Hillary Clinton.

Watch, "‘This Is a Disgusting Day’ Congressional Black Caucus Reacts to Trump’s Birther Walkback."

Also at Town Hall, "Congressional Black Caucus Calls Trump 'Racial Arsonist' After Birther Speech."

At the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles: 'The Battle of Algiers' — 50TH ANNIVERSARY NEW 4K RESTORATION (VIDEO)

The film's coming to the Nuart in West L.A. on October 7th. Sounds like something I'd like to attend. We'll see.

In any case, here's the trailer, "The Battle of Algiers."

A history of the three-year Battle of Algiers, chronicling the escalating terrorism and violence between French military forces and the Algerian independence movement, based on the memoirs of Saadi Yacef, a leader of the National Liberation Front. The 50th anniversary restoration opens October 7 at New York's Film Forum, Landmark's Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles, and Landmark's E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C.

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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966), Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary re-telling of the struggle for Algerian independence from France, on the 50th anniversary of its release, will run at Film Forum in New York in a new 4K restoration from Friday, October 7 through Thursday, October 13.

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is also a selection of the NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2016 and will be released theatrically by Rialto Pictures on October 7 at New York’s Film Forum, Landmark’s Nuart in Los Angeles and E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., followed by a major city roll-out through the fall.

Algiers, 1957: French paratroopers inch their way through the labyrinthine byways of the Casbah to zero in on the hideout of the last rebel still free in the city. Flashback three years earlier, as the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) decides on urban warfare. Thus begin the provocations, assassinations, hair-breadth escapes, and reprisals; Algerian women — disguised as chic Europeans — depositing bombs at a sidewalk café, a teenagers’ hang-out and an Air France office; and massive, surging crowd scenes unfolding with gripping realism.

Shot in the streets of Algiers, The Battle of Algiers vividly re-creates the tumultuous uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As the violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence.

Battle’s startling relevance to today’s world events motivated the Pentagon to hold a much-discussed private screening for military personnel shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A flyer advertising the screening stated, "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafés. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar?"

One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Battle of Algiers won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Foreign Film, Best Director and Best Story and Screenplay), and was ranked as the 26 greatest film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors’ poll (it was also in the critics’ top 50), though it was long banned in France for its negative depiction of French colonialism.

With the exception of actor Jean Martin, as the French colonel brought in to quell the uprising, the cast is comprised mainly of non-professional actors who’d been involved in the Algerian struggle. Saadi Yacef, who produced Algiers, also stars as one of the leaders of the insurrection – a role he played in life as a general in the National Liberation Front. Yacef wrote the original treatment for the film – adapted from his book Souvenirs de la bataille d’Alger – in jail after he was captured by the French.

The stirring score is by Pontecorvo and the great Ennio Morricone.

Restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Luce - Cinecittà at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in collaboration with Surf Film, Casbah Entertainment Inc. and CultFilms

Approx. 121 min. | A Rialto Pictures Release

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Screenplay: Franco Solinas,

Based on the book by Saadi Yacef | Cinematography: Marcello Gatti

Music: Gillo Pontecorvo & Ennio Morricone

Thanks to Odie's Facebook Friends

Thanks to the hilarious graphics, at Woodsterman's, "Libtardia . . . A Place?"

Evelyn Taft's Full Warm and Sunny Forecast

Following-up from last night, "Evelyn Taft's Warm and Sunny."

Odie writes in the comments there, "Now that's a 'Weather Babe', but why the hell did she disappear during half of the report?"

Heh.

Here's the full weather report, via CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

The Twilight of American Jewry

From Caroline Glick:

This week marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. Most of us didn’t realize it at the time, but those attacks also marked the beginning of the end of the golden age of American Jewry – on both sides of the ideological divide.

Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.

After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.

And the situation has only grown worse over time.

As Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum wrote this week in The National Interest, since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was founded in 2005, its members have gone from one leftist group to another and demanded that their members embrace the cause of Israel’s destruction.

Group after group – from the feminists, to the gay rights activists, to Occupy Wall Street, to Black Lives Matter – bowed to the BDS demand. Members who refused to condemn Israel and join the call for its destruction have been booted out.

As Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote last month, this state of affairs has brought about a situation where progressive American Jews who support Israel – that is, the majority of American Jews – are increasingly finding themselves isolated, rejected by their fellow leftists.

In his words, “Over the past several years, progressive Jews and supporters of Israel have had to come to terms with the reality that those who do not reject Israel and accept the… BDS movement’s unique brand of bigotry are no longer welcome in some progressive circles. And while both the Democratic and Republican parties have embraced the importance of the US alliance with Israel, that dynamic is under threat more so than at any point in my lifetime.”

The radicalization of the American Left has caused a radicalization of the Democratic Party. This was made clear throughout this year’s Democratic primary season and during the party’s national convention. Today, the anti-Israel Left makes up not just the Democratic grassroots but also the major donors to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

The significance of this development for American Jews cannot be overstated. Even if Clinton herself doesn’t share the positions of the Bernie Sanders wing of her party, she cannot govern in defiance of its will.

And if she is elected in November, she won’t...

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Evelyn Taft's Warm and Sunny Forecast

Somebody at CBS News 2 mislabels these weather forecast videos. Here's Ms. Evelyn, not Ms. Jackie, as the video's title mistakenly indicates.

After Latest Hack, Fear of Being Next

Yeah, I expected to see a lot of trepidation when I first blogged this story. Nothing's safe these days.

At NYT, "Concern Over Colin Powell’s Hacked Emails Becomes a Fear of Being Next":

WASHINGTON — A panicked network anchor went home and deleted his entire personal Gmail account. A Democratic senator began rethinking the virtues of a flip phone. And a former national security official gave silent thanks that he is now living on the West Coast.

The digital queasiness has settled heavily on the nation’s capital and its secretive political combatants this week as yet another victim, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, fell prey to the embarrassment of seeing his personal musings distributed on the internet and highlighted in news reports.

“There but for the grace of God go all of us,” said Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman for President Obama who now works in San Francisco. He said thinking about his own email exchanges in Washington made him cringe, even now.

“Sometimes we’re snarky, sometimes we are rude,” Mr. Vietor said, recalling a few such moments during his time at the White House. “The volume of hacking is a moment we all have to do a little soul searching.”

The Powell hack, which may have been conducted by a group with ties to the Russian government, echoed the awkwardness of previous leaks of emails from Democratic National Committee officials and the C.I.A. director, John O. Brennan. The messages exposed this week revealed that Mr. Powell considered Donald J. Trump a “national disgrace,” Hillary Clinton “greedy” and former Vice President Dick Cheney an “idiot.”

The latest hack could well spur a new rash of email deletions across the country as millions of people scan their sent mail for anything compromising, humiliating or career-destroying. It adds to the sense that everyone is vulnerable.

The soul searching is happening with a special urgency in Washington, where email accounts burst with strategies, delicate political proposals, gossipy whispers and banal details of girlfriends, husbands, bank accounts and shopping lists.

A television news anchor said that producers and staff members at her network had jokingly agreed at a morning news meeting to issue blanket apologies to one another if their emails were ever made public.

She said Mr. Powell’s emails had revealed him, a normally stoic public official, to be just as gossipy as everyone else, and added that the gossip, not classified information, was what people feared becoming public.

On Capitol Hill, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, said the news of Mr. Powell’s hacked emails had him thinking that Senator Chuck Schumer’s never-ending use of an old-fashioned flip phone “makes more sense than ever.”

“I think more and more people are realizing that there isn’t a thing you can say in an email that isn’t likely to be hackable or discoverable at some later point,” Mr. Durbin said, lamenting his own complacency.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, shrugged off the news. “I haven’t worried about an email being hacked since I’ve never sent one,” Mr. Graham said. “I’m, like, ahead of my time.”

But for another network anchor in Washington, who declined to be named for fear of becoming an even more prominent hacking target, the Powell disclosures led to a long night Wednesday that involved saving a few personal emails and then deleting his entire account. Everyone, he said, has sent emails they would not want released, including innocent messages that could be misinterpreted...

More at that top link.