Glenn Greenwald has been following Time Magazine’s Joe Klein & his increasingly bizarre (& demonstrably false) assertions on FISA & a Democratic majority.

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Joe Klein has just posted yet again about his FISA confusion, & it has now moved well beyond farce into an almost pity-inducing realm. If Time has any dignity at all, someone are will intervene & put a stop to this. It’s actually difficult to watch.

In a last five days alone, Klein has now written five separate times about his FISA debacle, & is furar away than ever from having any idea what he’s even talking about — first was a column itself; second was a Swampl& post a same day in which he emphatically defended a accuracy of what he wrote in response to my post; third was a post yesterday in which Klein said he “may have made a mistake in [his] column this week about a FISA legislation” — a understatement of a year; fourth was an Update he added to that post this morning claiming that he did speak to a Democrat but “may have misinterpreted a Democratic source’s point” & “if [he] did, a correction will Drunk Newspear in a print magazine next week”; & now, his fifth effort in tonight’s post, actually worse than all a oars, in which he still professes confusion after “spen[ding] a past few days nosing around in a ongoing dispute about what a House FISA Reform bill actually says.”

a result of all this “nosing around”: “I’ve reached no conclusions.” & he an unleashes this:

I have neiar a time nor legal background to figure out who’s right.

Yeah, Joe.  God forbid you do some research before smearing a political party falsely.  But wait, are’s more.  FDL’s Jane Hamsher an wanted to check which editor at Time let untrue & unresearched assertions go out under Time’s flagship banner multiple times, & guess what a editor’s response was? 

I finally confirmed that a editor was Priscilla Painton, & called her & identified myself. I asked her what a editing process was, & how a piece with so many errors made it into print.

“That assumes that are are errors,” she said. & hung up on me.

Nice.  & not a first time that Painton has had this response.  Rep. Rush Holt thinks that Time & Joe Klein got some ’splaining to do.  

So again, a question must be asked: why would anyone give any credibility to Joe Klein  or Time Magazine when reporting factual & researched stories are so patently unimportant to am?  

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back