John Byrne

Chris Matthews: Dick Cheney is a ‘troll’

MSNBC host Chris Matthews isn’t beloved by the left. But a comment Tuesday night may have put him a step closer to liberals’ good graces.
He called former Vice President Dick Cheney a “troll.”
“Well does he ever stop?” Matthews opined. “He’s crawled troll-like out from under his bridge to say that President Obama is projecting weakness [...]

Chris Matthews: Dick Cheney is a ‘troll’

MSNBC host Chris Matthews isn’t beloved by the left. But a comment Tuesday night may have put him a step closer to liberals’ good graces.
He called former Vice President Dick Cheney a “troll.”
“Well does he ever stop?” Matthews opined. “He’s crawled troll-like out from under his bridge to say that President Obama is projecting weakness [...]

Yahoo: Our spying policy would ’shock’ customers

A little-noticed letter from Yahoo! to the US Marshals Service offers troubling insight into the surveillance policies of one of the Internet’s largest email providers.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo’s! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers [...]

Yahoo: Our spying policy would ’shock’ customers

A little-noticed letter from Yahoo! to the US Marshals Service offers troubling insight into the surveillance policies of one of the Internet’s largest email providers.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo’s! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers [...]

Newsweek editor: Cheney presidential run would be ‘good for the country’

In an editorial published Saturday that will run in the magazine’s Dec. 7 edition, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham argues that former Vice President Dick Cheney would be a good candidate for the presidency in 2012 — and that a run would be “good for the country.”
“I think we should be taking the possibility of a [...]