[William McKinley]

Doug has said in some of these threads (not sure where, sorry), and he has said to me in emails, that he will not be answering any questions at the advice of an attorney, and if he did it would be an exclusive for his own website.

Convenient, eh?

[Miss Marple]

Before I leave, this "advice of an attorney" thing is really strange. Thompson has things posted on his web site, and he has posted stuff here which is archived. Why all of a sudden the secrecy?

Seems to me that there is something we are missing, or at least something he doesn't want us to discover.

Donning my tin-foil chapeau, I now am going out to weed and think.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I hear ya and get why Thompson is scape-goating and hiding behind his lawyer but every journalist is due a retraction, Thompson apparently did... so what is the problem in him explaining more he retracted, why does he need a lawyer?

[Southack]

"We intend to use Blue as a test bed for new techniques and concepts for web journalism," Lowrey said."

Well, after seeing the chain of CHB to truthout.org to Japan Today to every liberal paper in Europe, I suppose that we've all figured out what the "new techniques" to be tested and tried out are...