I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Eric B. at Michigan Liberal puts the punchline on Peter Hoekstra’s unconstrained Twittering by citing a 2006 op-ed column the Republican legislator wrote for the LA Times about the importance of protecting national security secrets from being released publicly. That column contained statements like this:
We are a nation at war. Unauthorized disclosures of classified information only help terrorists and our enemies – and put American lives at risk.
Hoekstra’s office, meanwhile, says the fact that he Twittered the actual location of the helicopter bearing a Congressional delegation in Baghdad and details of their itinerary is no big deal:
“As the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Hoekstra is fully aware of security issues when travelling abroad. He believes in giving people in West Michigan as much access as possible, and posting on Twitter allows him to provide real-time insight into the sights and sounds of his congressional activities.”
Right. And Hoekstra obviously knows better than those tasked with guarding the Congressional delegation, who specifically advised members of the delegation not to tell anyone about the trip at all, much less the exact location and itinerary. One question comes to mind though: If Hoekstra really thinks he didn’t do anything wrong and he really believes that “giving people in West Michigan as much access as possible” trumps the security of his fellow legislators traveling in a war zone, why did he remove those posts from his Twitter account? Answer: He doesn’t. He knows he screwed up, badly. He just can’t admit that.
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