Washington Post Continues Soviet Drift

Dan Froomkin, a consistently independent anti-torture voice and critic of the Bush White House at the Washington Post, has been fired.

The Post's editorial voice has taken a sharp neoconservative turn becoming effectively a propaganda vehicle for the American rightwing, purging critical voices for not "giving readers the most value... ."

Nicole Belle at Crook and Liars and Glenn Greenwald at Salon have the story.

Belle posts the contact info for the Post's Ombudsman Andrew Alexander at: ombudsman@washpost.com.

From Greenwald:

This is what one finds -- just from today -- on the Op-Ed page of The Washington Post, which yesterday fired Dan Froomkin:
* Neocon Charles Krauthammer: attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran
* Neocon Paul Wolfowitz: attacking Obama for indifference to Freedom in Iran
* Establishment/CIA spokesman and war supporter David Ignatius: demanding that Obama do more to support Freedom in Iran and refuse to negotiate with the Iranian regime
* Bush CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden: warning that America will be in danger if CIA officials involved in torture continue to be criticized and questioned about what they did

The Outlaw Presidency

Dan Froomkin's The Outlaw Presidency, discussing Jane Meyer's The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, points to a significant fact of the American political culture.

Finally, it is now conventional wisdom that the Bush-Cheney regime is the most lawless and immoral administration in American history, though I still recommend that elitist Harper's magazine. See Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew: How a Gang of Right-wing Con men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing.