Yep. He sucks at this. I don’t want theSlot to become Gawker-like. It was so much better than Gawker.

Veteran here. Couldn’t agree more. Powell was supposed to be a soldiers soldier. When he stood up at the UN, I thought “well, they really must know something we don’t” I have lost every once of respect I had for the man who knowingly sent me to war for no reason.

Oh dude, I assumed your first point was sarcastic. Powell knowingly lied the U.S. into its worst foreign policy decision in its history.

The best headline. Definitely good reporting, strong reporting by the best people. People are asking, why hasn’t this headline won any awards?

Yeah, Brendan’s headline is coming from the Matt Lauer School of Reporting.

He had his moments when he was serving as a general, but the way he allowed the Bush administration to destroy decades of foreign policy work in Iraq and North Korea was inexcusable and disqualifies him for the presidency.

If he’d been as good a man as you claim he would have resigned in protest far sooner.

So am I the only one who interprets these emails as two people just trying to figure out what the rules are?

Are you kidding? He lied to the UN under oath for the Bush government, claiming there was evidence of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction so that the US invasion would be green-lighted by the UN and not considered an act of aggression, even though informed observers at the time (and poor Han Blix, the UN weapons…

Right? If anythign this proves she was just doing what she thought was right

Brendan, honey. No.

The language is fudging things a bit there. He doesn’t say she was using it as SoS, just that she was using it. I’m not surprised in the slightest that she had a system set up for the campaign (and carried onward once she agreed to be an Obama surrogate) and then once she was picked for SoS she wanted to carry on…

OMFG. I never do this but - this is our headline here at the Slot? Really? The email clearly says she wants to “bring along the state department” and asks for advice. Where is the “bypassing” attempt, exactly?

Interesting that she’d been using the personal server as sec of state for a year when her email above is dated 3 days after Obama’s first inauguration.

The sad truth is, most Americans don’t have assets to protect. For people who get married young, like I did (I didn’t have any assets until 3 or 4 years into my marriage, and that was a used car purchased jointly), or for the vast majority of people unable by reasons of circumstance and systemic bias to fight their…

I don’t have a daughter and I would chase this guy away from my daughter.

Hey, I ain’t saying he’s a golddigger...But he ain’t messing with a broke heiress. ;)

Jesus, seriously? Im not sure whether thats admirable or pathetic. Maybe both? Background, my uncle got shotgun blasted in the chest by his best friend at the age of 12 and the outrage lasted 5 minutes.

If it’s so important that teams stand at attention during the anthem, then isn’t playing it before they’re on the field MORE disrespectful?

Playing the anthem early pretty much proves the uselessness of playing it at all, right?

“We don’t want Megan Rapinoe to cause a scene, so we’re going to cause a scene.”