Glenn Greenwald has a lengthy post up on Salon that builds on David Barstow's story that I noted on Sunday. Glenn focuses more on NBC's despicable behavior, and his piece is heavily documented with many useful links.
[Added] Glenn has another post on this topic, "NBC and McCaffrey's coordinated responses to the NYT story." The degree to which McCaffrey and NBC are going to spin this is nothing short of amazing. Perhaps this is a sign of hope -- ideally, we'd like NBC to come clean about its past and change their policies, but at least they're bothered enough at this point not to just ignore the matter. I'd like to see more attention paid to this than, say, obsessing over what Obama's appointments might mean.
[Added] Note especially the posts on Politico and the Columbia Journalism Review that Glenn links to. I also want to second Glenn's shoutout to Benaim, Motaparthy, and Kumar's piece in The Nation, which exposed McCaffrey's extensive ties to military contractors in 2003. You remember how much attention that got, right? Not.
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