Two old and dear friends had their wedding reception here in town last night, which means a number of other old and dear friends are in town, so a few of us old cronies are going to get together for coffee before people hit the road. (You know, I do remember back when us "old cronies" were the "young turks." When the hell did that transition happen?) So blogging gets pushed back a bit today.
But I will make note of this item of interest: I have complained before that for far too long when the media asked "how did 9/11 happen?" the one name that inevitably was ignored was that of Louis Freeh, FBI Director during the Clinton years. Apparently tonight 60 Minutes will be looking into Freeh -- from Freeh's side, and as usual with one of their little book commercial segments, without doing much in the way of giving anyone else a say on how his side checks out. Yet isn't it interesting that they are giving the Clinton camp time to offer at least a brief rebuttal: I don't remember other targets of these hit pieces being given too much in the way of such a courtesy (nor is a statement of that kind likely to be particularly persuasive, as opposed to a well reported piece about Freeh's role. Which it sounds like we will have to continue to wait for.)
I checked, by the way, and unlike similiar books given this kind of 60 Minutes roll-out, Freeh's publisher, St. Martin's, does not appear to be owned by Viacom, parent company of CBS.
It is, interestingly, the publisher for Mary Mapes book, however. (Oddly, it only seems available at Amazon in non-print.)
And with that, I'm off to share more tall tales and gossip.
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