Let us now speak seriously about data collection

By Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM - 0 Comments

More later on this morning, but early reviews are in from the Canadian Press, Globe, Star, Postmedia, CBC and CTV.

Census a 'manufactured' crisis: Opposition

By macleans.ca - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM - 0 Comments

Opposition MPs slammed Tony Clement at a Commons committee hearing on Tuesday, charging the Conservative Industry Ministry “manufactured” the controversy over the future of the long-form census. Liberal MP Marc Garneau and NDP MP Charlie Angus both pointed out few Canadians had expressed reservations about the mandatory nature of the long-form. Angus added the government is nurturing an “urban myth” that police will apprehend those who fail to complete the form, noting “nobody in 40 years has ever gone to jail.” Clement responded by saying the government is simply looking to find an “appropriate balance” behind the importance of reliable data and Canadians’ rights to privacy. The Ontario MP also backtracked on his claims StatsCan endorsed the change, saying the agency would have been “quite happy” to keep the mandatory long-form.

Toronto Star

Iraqi funds mismanaged

By macleans.ca - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM - 0 Comments

An audit by the U.S. Department of Defense found that the $9.1 billion fund supposed to be used by American military agencies for reconstruction projects in Iraq was not documented responsibly, including $2.6 billion that are unaccounted for because of poor record-keeping. The audit, conducted by the inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, also found that U.S. officials didn’t put $8.7 billion into bank accounts, leaving funds “vulnerable to inappropriate uses and undetected loss,” according to the report. “Weak oversight is directly correlated to increased numbers of cases of theft and abuse, with the majority of convictions to date being traceable to the 2003-2004 time-frame where accounting practices were weakest,” said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, in an e-mail to the Washington Post. The report, to be released next Tuesday, is the latest in a series of investigations which have faulted the U.S. government for mismanaging the Iraq war.

Washington Post

And yet somehow it's still legal in Israel to tell your Jewish lover you're not married

By Michael Petrou - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM - 0 Comments

A Palestinian man in Israel has been convicted of rape because he told the Jewish woman with whom he had a consensual affair that he was Jewish. Writing in Haaretz, Gideon Levy discusses the creepy and racist absurdity of the case.

RCMP commissioner draws heat from top staff

By macleans.ca - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM - 0 Comments

Over the past seven days, as many as 10 senior RCMP members have complained about their boss, Commissioner William Elliott, to some of the highest levels of federal government. Complainants have accused Elliott of being verbally abusive, closed-minded, arrogant and insulting, the CBC reports. The Prime Minister’s Office has not denied that complaints were made, but refused to comment Monday. The group of unhappy employees apparently includes some of the force’s top officers, deputy commissioners Tim Killam and Raf Souccar. The CBC’s Brian Stewart commented that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will
have to determine the validity of the protest and decide, “which force is going to have to go: either the commissioner or the group protesting against him.”

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Scientists diving to create 3D map of Titanic

By macleans.ca - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM - 0 Comments

Scientists will undertake a 20-day exploration of the Titanic wreck on August 18, with plans to “virtually raise” the ship for all to see. The team that will create the 3D map is bankrolled by private company RMS Titanic Inc. which owns the rights to the wreckage and currently tours with thousands of artifacts acquired from previous dives. The scientific mission is being lead by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts who will gather new images to map the site and new data to help preserve the pieces of the ship. The Titanic, once believed to be unsinkable, went down on its maiden voyage when it struck ice on April, 14, 1912. More than 1,500 people died. The wreckage was discovered in 1985, four kilometers below the surface of the north Atlantic off Newfoundland.

CBC

Iran’s president is no fan of World-Cup-predicting Octopus

By macleans.ca - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM - 0 Comments

Paul the Octopus—the German cephalopod who predicted the outcome of Germany’s World Cup games—is nothing but “Western propaganda and superstition,” said Iran’s president on the weekend. Paul predicted the winner of all seven matches involving Germany by choosing a mussel from either a jar with the German flag or a jar with the opposing team’s flag. “Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd in Tehran.

Telegraph

Colonel Williams’ wife, under attack

By Michael Friscolanti and Cathy Gulli, with Martin Patriquin - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM - 321 Comments

Jim Rankin/Toronto Star/ Jerome Lessard/QMI Agency

On July 15, 2009, an hour before Col. Russell Williams was sworn in as the new boss of CFB Trenton, a two-seater jet skidded off the air base runway and smashed through a fence.

The plane, a 1950s-era Canadian Forces Silver Star, was being delivered to a private buyer in the U.S. when something went wrong during takeoff, forcing the pilot to abort.

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Ottawa’s stimulus fiasco

By Jason Kirby with Josh Dehaas, Philippe Gohier and Jane Switzer - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM - 0 Comments

Mathieu Belanger/Reuters

The village of Klemtu, in northern B.C., hardly stands out among Canada’s ports. With a population of 450, the Aboriginal village doesn’t get many visitors to its makeshift dock. Even so, politicians in Ottawa and Victoria have come to see Klemtu as a key hub in their effort to stimulate the economy. Starting next month, work will begin on a new ferry terminal at a rocky outcrop two kilometres north of the village. The total cost to B.C. and Canadian taxpayers: $25 million. Granted, that’s only one-quarter of what BC Ferries paid in the late 1990s to build the Duke Point terminal in the city of Nanaimo, but that facility came complete with a stretch of four-lane highway and it serves more than one million passengers a year. Klemtu will be used “at most for a few hours once per week,” according to an environmental assessment of the project. Perhaps fittingly, tiny Klemtu sits on the shores of a place called Swindle Island.

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Census day

By Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 8:24 AM - 0 Comments

The industry committee commences a full day of hearings at 9am this morning. Tony Clement will testify first, but the witness list is extensive. Proceedings can be viewed at the link here.

Wikileaks: handle with care

By Colby Cosh - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 8:15 AM - 0 Comments

So says busy CF Capt. Bruce Rolston, dashing off a message that says “context…will have to wait” before immediately providing some useful context. Wikileaks refers to the data dump as a “diary”; but when we normally encounter this term, what’s being referred to is a continuous narrative record kept by a single person and updated and corrected on the fly. The “Afghan war diary” is more like a scrapbook of initial event reports, assembled with little post-hoc correction and with a certain amount of non-expert annotation and categorization. There is value in piercing and documenting the fog of war, but there’s a reason they use the term “fog”. Documenting it is not the same thing as dispersing it.

The media navel-gazing over the Ultimate Meaning of Wikileaks seems a bit over-the-top in the year 2010. I don’t mean to suggest that a really well-hidden drop box for brown envelopes isn’t a useful thing, but is it novel in principle? Jay Rosen’s description of Wikileaks as “the World’s First Stateless News Organization” was quickly met with variants of the observation that the internet itself is “stateless”, and doesn’t have a head office that can be raided or bombed. All this tut-tutting about “accountability” has been familiar since the grunge years, and in our grandparents’ time the world lived with news empires that were “stateless” in a much more alarming sense—that is, because they were global powers unto themselves, and the opinion-shaping abilities of elected politicians and bureaucracies simply hadn’t yet caught up. How “accountable”, in the sense Colleague Potter frets over, were William Randolph Hearst or Lord Beaverbrook or Leopold Ullstein?

Previously on The Country I Live In

By Scott Feschuk - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 6:06 AM - 0 Comments

I’ve been away from Canada for four of the past five weeks, and it’s always fun to return and see what’s been missed. A comprehensive review:

1. The dominant domestic news story of the past month hinges on the intricacies of statistical analysis.

2. Finally demonstrating a populist touch, Michael Ignatieff has started production on his own Speed sequel: If his party’s popularity in opinion polls falls below 25 per cent, the Liberal Express explodes! (Subplot: If the bus keeps stopping for Timbits, the occupants of the Liberal Express explode!)

3. Conrad Black has apparently tunneled out of prison and escaped.

4. Upon being informed of No. 3, David Radler has soiled himself.*

* Not reported, but a safe assumption.

Don’t ever change, Canada.

Personally, I don’t understand what all the fuss is about with the census. On one hand, the Harper government’s move to scrap the mandatory long form has been condemned by Continue…

'Stephen J. Harper 1991'

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM - 0 Comments

And so now we reach the inevitable point of any national affairs discussion at which Stephen Harper’s master’s thesis is unearthed and considered.

Here is Stephen Joseph Harper’s submission to the University of Calgary’s department of graduate studies in September 1991. If nothing else it perhaps demonstrates that whatever his bona fides as minivan-driving hockey dad from the suburbs, he was also once quite comfortable using the phrase “social optima.”

Kevin Milligan, a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, who says this work would merit an A grade (perhaps even an A+), passes along the following comments specific to the matter at hand. Continue…

U.S. asked Canada to apply diplomatic pressure in 2007: memo

By macleans.ca - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM - 0 Comments

According to a memo leaked by the website Wikileaks, in 2007, Canada was asked by the U.S. to apply diplomatic pressure on South Africa and Saudi Arabia over alleged Taliban fundraising in those countries. The cable describes an exchange between American diplomats and two senior Canadian Foreign Affairs officials, including senior director Yves Beaulieu and policy adviser Georges Flanagan Whalen. Wikileaks released some 91,000 documents of U.S. military and intelligence documents on Sunday. At a press conference Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the leaks, “could endanger the lives of our men and women in Afghanistan.”

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Bill Lawrence On Low-Concept Shows

By Jaime Weinman - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM - 0 Comments

This is from last year, but I only found it this past weekend, and it might also be New To You™. This long interview with Bill Lawrence, printed back when Cougar Town was starting, includes some very good and sound thoughts on one of my favourite hobby-horses. Said hobby-horse being the weirdness of the fact that, despite the continuing popularity of multi-camera sitcoms, nobody’s developing any hit multi-camera sitcoms except Chuck Lorre. (There’s a very distinct possibliity that we’ll be looking at a future where Chuck Lorre completely dominates the form. And since Chuck Lorre is not a genius, I have to assume the other networks/producers are doing something wrong that he’s doing right.) Lawrence is good at both formats, and he seems to want to do both: had a multi-camera success with Spin City, then created two shows that needed to be single-camera for different reasons — Scrubs because of the M*A*S*H-style approach and cartoony sequences, Cougar Town because it theoretically helps Courteney Cox avoid comparisons with Friends. In between, though, he’s pitched a number of multi-camera ideas, none of which have gotten picked up, though his self-conscious hybrid pilot Nobody’s Watching had some cult success online.

As well as the usual points about why the multi-camera show needs to come back — the massive syndication popularity of the ’90s hits, the success of the watered-down Disney multi-cams — Lawrence gets into the meat of why it’s hard to sell a multi-camera show these days:

The next move, the next thing I really want to see is someone just make a great, intelligent, multi-camera comedy, where for some reason, it still seems really hard to get that through the system…But you know why? It’s because… sitcoms aren’t about the idea, OK? They’re about the execution and the casting and the chemistry… So then, you know, the hardest thing about a multi-camera sitcom is, they don’t have a lot of potential to hit hard with giant buzz. Do you know what I mean? Because they’ve all been done before. They’re about execution… I’m not gonna go ‘hey, did you hear? There’s a new multi-camera sitcom that takes place in a diner!’

…And what happens is, you only get a few shots at the plate. The amount of pilots they make every year has diminished. Even now, the multi-camera show that ABC made [Hank] had to have Kelsey Grammer attached. Huge name. Because what’s tough is when they’re not making a lot of pilots, and it’s hard for anybody, much less network executives or studio executives who are hearing 1000 pitches, to envision something in a realm that they’re only making five or six comedy pilots. The guy that goes in and says, I’m doing a single-camera, mockumentary, talk to the camera take on the modern American family with this, and that, and this, you know, that’s a great pitch, especially when you don’t have the show to look at and see that it’s funny.

A harder pitch is to go, ‘I want to do a show about kind of a workplace family, but they work at a…’ Imagine pitching Cheers right now. ‘I want to do a show, multi-camera sitcom, about a bunch of friends who are really a family and they all hang out at a bar.’ It’d be an impossible sale, unless you’re Chuck Lorre. ‘Are there any stars in it?’ ‘No. At this point, there’s no one you’ve ever seen or heard of.’ Do you know what I mean? To me, that’s the disconnect. That’s what makes it hard.

Now, a high-concept, buzzworthy premise is always pretty much pointless, especially with a comedy. Any comedy, single-camera or multi-camera, burns out its premise in about four weeks and then goes looking for other stories to tell depending on who the characters are. Lawrence himself turned Cougar Town from a bad high-concept show to a good low-concept show; by the end of its first season, 30 Rock was no longer about life backstage at a sketch comedy show, and has not been about anything of the kind since then. But this type of show is less likely to be hurt by its high-concept premise (unless, as with Cougar Town, the premise is just fundamentally annoying). The big, easy-to-publicize premise helps it get off the ground and gives the critics something to talk about.

But you take multi-camera sitcoms, and they really do need to start without too much conceptual baggage. (As a general rule, I mean; there are always exceptions.) Seinfeld was not the only show about nothing; most hit multi-cams are basically just about a bunch of people hanging out in one or two locations. It’s “blue-collar guy comes up with get-rich-quick schemes” or “sane man takes over a radio station where everyone is crazy” (twice!) They succeed if the characters and their relationships are funny enough to support multiple stories and comedic set-pieces, and if the performers click together — something that is often not completely apparent from the pilot. Starting with a high-concept pitch is often really bad for this kind of comedy, because the writers spend the crucial first 13 weeks trying to come to terms with the cool premise, rather than trying to throw characters together and see what happens.

If you look, for example, at NewsRadio‘s first five episodes, the show clicked not in the episodes that sorta kind had something to do with radio, but in the episode “Smoking,” which was just a generic office situation combined with a variation on a generic sitcom plot: one guy tries to give up smoking, while another guy tries to give up coffee. Everything came together in this famous scene and the show’s tone, pace, rhythm started to become apparent. This would be much more difficult if they were saddled with a big premise that had to be serviced in the episode; they basically needed to be free to abandon the premise and just do stories about people who do stuff.

Last year’s crop of multi-camera shows tanked, and while I’m not saying it’s directly attributable to their premises, the fact is that they mostly had high-concept premises: a low-grade Arrested Development riches-to-rags thing (the disastrous Hank, which may have soured ABC on multi-cams for life), a Knocked Up scenario (Accidentally On Purpose). These shows saddled themselves with so much concept that they couldn’t tell normal stories or do relatable scenes, not to mention that they were both greenlit based on established stars of previous multi-camera series. (This doesn’t necessarily mean disaster — it didn’t mean disaster for Lawrence’s Spin City — but it’s usually better to start with a not-particularly-famous cast like Friends did). The only new multi-camera show that became successful was Hot In Cleveland, and even that strikes me as depending way too heavily on fish-out-of-water stories. But at least they have another season to see if they can get the characters to stop talking about how weird it is to live in Cleveland.

Which means, I suppose, that the likeliest way for a multi-camera show to take off is to greenlight a show without big stars, without a cool-sounding premise, and maybe even without a perfect pilot, but just one where the cast and the characters seem to have potential. But you can see why networks would be leery of picking up a Seinfeld today: the investment in a show is so huge (not just financial, either) that it’s better to pick up a show that sounds good. If the high-concept show with stars is a flop, the executives at least have an explanation for why they bought it — it sounded good in the pitch meeting. If the low-concept show fails, as most shows do, the executive has no obvious answer to the question “why did you buy this thing?” So while multi-camera shows are more popular when they become hits (and I keep wondering whether NBC is getting any pressure from its production-company arm to come up with more shows that can be sold into syndication; The Office has done fine, but 30 Rock won’t sell for much, and they need some multi-camera product to sell), single-camera shows have an easier time justifying their place on the modern schedule.

The one thing that seems like a modest reason for hope is that there are at least two multi-camera shows starting this fall that are not trying to succeed on star power or concept power. Mike & Molly didn’t greatly impress me, and the pilot will get a deserved bad rap for its fat jokes (speaking of which, ABC Family’s Huge really is one of the best new shows of the summer, and will be sort of an antidote to that). But it’s got some funny people who aren’t ridiculously famous, a core of sweetness underneath the nasty, and a few relationships that seem to have story potential. And Better With You will have a tough time of it, critically, as the one multi-camera show on its network, but it’s got likable, amusing people from top to bottom, and places for them to go. I would not bet on either show to get good, especially in this climate, but they have a better chance of getting good than most of the multi-cams we’ve seen picked up in the last couple of years.

But nothing’s really going to change, fundamentally, until the networks start taking chances on more sitcom pilots that don’t have Chuck Lorre or former Friends writers attached, and until they’re willing to take a chance that a pilot with a good cast and a smart creator is a place to grow from — the start of what the show is going to be, not the end.

'We have not been able to get a response'

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM - 0 Comments

Before publicly tabling its proposal this morning, the National Statistics Council tried to speak directly with the Industry Minister.

“We had tried to communicate with the minister . . . through formal channels to move toward a solution,” Ian McKinnon, chair of the council, said in an interview. “We have not been able to get a response. We felt that this was exceptionally important and we had no other avenue left to us.”

The Scandinavian model

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM - 0 Comments

Gustave Goldmann, formerly a senior official at Statistics Canada, considers (scroll down) the periodically cited European model of data collection.

The critics often cite examples of countries that have done away with the census as evidence Canada should do the same in the name of privacy. What they fail to acknowledge is that the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and other European states have extensive administrative data bases that contain the same information that Canada gathers in the census. These data include registration numbers that are used to create linked data bases for all individuals living in these countries. The residents (citizens and non-citizens alike) in these countries are obliged to provide this information. All interactions with the state (health, education, taxation, the justice system, migration) are recorded in these data bases. Is this less intrusive, and should it be held up as an alternative?

More On TV Visuals

By Jaime Weinman - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM - 0 Comments

Thanks to commenters on my Rubicon post for pointing me to two articles that help clarify things. The first is this New York Times article on Rubicon, which talks a lot about its heavy retooling after the original pilot, and the creator’s departure when he felt that AMC was screwing with his vision — further evidence, I suppose, that the “creator-driven” show can only go so far if the creator’s ideas don’t seem to be working. But it also mentions the fact that the show uses only real locations, with a real building providing most of the rooms that we see in the show. That doesn’t mean the drab look follows automatically from the use of practical locations — I’d suspect that the retooling and changes in authorial voice have more to do with it. But I still think it’s necessary to clarify that the tacky sets are, in fact, tacky real rooms (not that that’s better than a set).

The other is an article in Variety, which I’m not linking because of the paywall, which says that the budget for the second season of Breaking Bad is said to be around 3 million an episode. This would put it, Variety says, on “the high end” of basic cable budgets, and make me wrong when I say that BB is low-budget. I was basing it on Vince Gilligan’s statements, like this one, where he explained that they moved production to New Mexico because “we wanted our limited production budget to go that much farther.” Either the budget has gone up since then or he was using “limited” relative to a premium cable or broadcast budget. (My points about the techniques the show uses to paper over a limited number of shot setups, and so on, still applies; they don’t have as many shot setups or retakes as a big network show, and they’ve found ways to make that work.)

While I’m discussing AMC shows… I’m not going to do a big Mad Men post because there’s not a lot to add to the extant discussions of the season premiere. (Besides, Matt Weiner might consider it a spoiler even to talk about an episode that’s already aired.) But on the subject of visuals, one of the keys to Mad Men‘s impact is something that is possibly more important than period detail or cool suits: the use of light and colour to give character to a scene. The way colour is used is a welcome throwback to the movies that were made in the show’s time period, when the idea was to pick certain colours that would stick out in a scene and call attention to themselves. A famous example, and a very old-school colour choice, is having a character wear the only bit of red in the otherwise mostly black/white/gray boardroom. That was a conscious decision made to set him apart from the others, a throwback to a movie like Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? where the boss’s roses (the only reminder of the career he really wanted) are the only non-dull colours in an entire meeting.

It’s not just what it says about the character, though; it’s also the power of colour to give character to a scene, and the effectiveness of bold, rich colours like the colours of the fruit in a market. And equally bold contrasts in lighting, like cutting from Don in the gloomy light of his former house to Don in the blinding, ultra-artificial light of his office. Not every show has to use that ’60s aesthetic in terms of colour choices, but it certainly does help for a show to pay attention to the impact of colour, and choose costumes and props on that basis.

Race for the ‘god particle’ heats up

By macleans.ca - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:31 PM - 0 Comments

At a global physics conference this Monday, scientists conducting experiments at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are quickly catching up to rival Tevatron accelerator in the U.S. With its advanced power, the LHC may discover a “new physics” which will prove or disprove the Standard Model—finding the Higgs Boson particle, also called the ‘god particle.’ The LHC would be the only machine in the world powerful enough to detect the elusive particle. “The LHC should give us results on the Higgs Boson in 2014 or 2015,” French physicist Guy Wormser told the Associated Press. “If it has a big mass, it could be at the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012.” However, Wormser added that if found, scientists would need a couple billion euros and twenty more years to build another machine that could analyze them. The International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris runs until July 28.

Canada.com

A cure for the energy crisis

By Tom Henheffer - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM - 0 Comments

Getty Images/ MetroWest Newspapers

Mike Markham used to hold a match under his faucet and light the tap water on fire. He’d get a small blue flame or an explosive orange fireball, depending on the day. “I had to check to see if I still had a moustache,” he says. Markham lives on an 80-acre farm in Fort Lupton, Colo. There are about eight natural gas wells within a few miles of his property, which he says are causing methane gas to migrate into his water.

The problem, which also affected about 100 of Markham’s neighbours who get water from the same aquifer, ended this year when the drilling companies changed pipe infrastructure and introduced filters and holding tanks to remove the gas before it entered household sinks. The aquifer is still contaminated, but local concerns about water quality aren’t going to stop the nearby drilling. That’s life on the front lines of what might be the biggest energy revolution in generations.

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BP CEO Hayward to step down: report

By macleans.ca - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM - 0 Comments

BP CEO Tony Hayward will likely step down in October, an anonymous source has said in advance of a Monday meeting that will decide Hayward’s fate. Hayward became the face of BP’s woes following its failure to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The report said that he’ll take up a job with BP’s joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP. The BBC, quoting a BP official, reported that Hayward would be offered a non-executive position on the board of TNK-BP. Hayward’s likely departure is welcome news in the U.S., where the the overwhelming sentiment toward him is “good riddance.” His most-probable replacement, Bob Dudley, has been praised as “calm, cool and collected” by Kenneth Feinberg, the claims administrator appointed by the White House to oversee compensation from the oil spill.

CBC

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Capt. Robert Semrau, ethics, and the ‘soldier’s pact’

By Michael Friscolanti and John Geddes - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM - 0 Comments

Photograph by Blair Gable

In the end, it was left to four fellow officers to decide the fate of Capt. Robert Semrau: a naval commodore, two air force majors, and an army captain. As military juries go, each member appeared to grasp the importance of their mission.

They took detailed notes, listened closely during weeks of conflicting testimony, and not once rolled an eye when the historic court martial became bogged down in yet another procedural delay. At one point, the panel foreman even asked the judge, Lt.-Col. Jean-Guy Perron, if they could take their notepads home for the night. (The answer was no.)

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Idea alert

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM - 0 Comments

Joe Volpe wants to make it easier to make a citizen’s arrest.

Wikileaks: Truth and its Consequences

By Andrew Potter - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 3:04 PM - 0 Comments

What is the impact of the War Logs leak? I think this is best split into at least four questions.

1.  What is the impact on journalism?
2. What is the impact on operational security?
3. What will the impact be on public support for the mission?
4. What is the impact on the military?
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