The Washington Post is reporting that the CIA has started delivering weapons to Syrian rebels.
U.S. Military Is Losing Patience With Civilian Rule, General Warns

In yesterday's Washington Post, retired United States Army major general Robert H. Scales offered a startling and revealing assessment of the military's mindset as the country contemplates war against Syria:
Cory Booker Says Newark Is Too Dangerous for Bloggers
The Washington Post sent Jason Horowitz to tag along with Newark mayor Cory Booker, as New Jersey's Twitter folk hero and presumptive next United States Senator made his rounds. Cory Booker is pals with everyone:
Jennifer Rubin Is the Writer the Washington Post Deserves
Jennifer Rubin is a professional liar. From her perch in the Washington Post’s Opinions section, she publishes lie after lie after lie after lie after lie — too many for any one person to possibly catalog. (Though some have tried.) How does she hang on at the Post? This week the paper’s former ombudsman, Patrick B.…
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks the Washington Post
Two days after phishing SocialFlow, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Washington Post’s website, pointing visitors to a website owned by the pro-Assad hacker collective. “The Post is working to resolve the issue,” the paper promises readers (such as new owner Jeff Bezos).
New York Times Memo: "The Times Is Not for Sale"
In the wake of this week's surprise sale of the Washington Post to Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos, it's only natural that the shock waves would roll up north, to the hallowed halls of the New York Times. Would the Times be the next vaunted legacy media property to fall into the soft hands of an internet-rich arriviste…
At Amazon, Jeff Bezos has no unionized employees. At the Washington Post, he has 1,200.
Even the Washington Post Is Confused About Its New Ownership
Earlier today The Washington Post's Wonk Blog offered up an image-heavy explainer to clear up any lingering questions about its new owner, Jeff Bezos. One small problem: they got a crucial answer wrong.
Richard Cohen Fucked Peter Jennings’ Wife Back in the Day
Today Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, the paper's resident expert on racism and sexism who should be immediately fired by new owner Jeff Bezos, delves deep into the mysteries of the human heart to explain why Huma Abedin continues to stand by Anthony Weiner. He's been there, brother. See, there was this…
What Can the Washington Post Expect From Its New Owner Jeff Bezos?
In a letter to his new employees at The Washington Post, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote, “Journalism plays a critical role in a free society and The Washington Post—as the hometown paper of the capital city of the United States—is especially important.”
Jeff Bezos Is Buying the Washington Post
Here is what just happened this afternoon, with no warning: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is estimated to be more than $25 billion, just purchased the Washington Post. By himself. What?
Richard Cohen Is an Unreconstructed Bigot
Not every columnist would look at the death of an unarmed 17-year-old black kid, shot after he was racially profiled, as an occasion to write a column about how all black teenagers deserve to be racially profiled. But the Washington Post's Richard Cohen is a very special columnist. The killing of Trayvon Martin, Cohen…
The Washington Post Is a Bitter, Jealous Little Newspaper
The Washington Post, the pre-Politico newsletter of choice for The Political Establishment, has the worst opinion section in America. Today, they once again prove why: the paper, which helped to break the NSA Prism spying story, editorializes that the U.S. government must stop Edward Snowden from leaking any more of…
Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead
Veteran journalist Greg Mitchell is claiming an assigned piece he wrote for the Washington Post that outlined the failure of the media (including the Washington Post) in reporting on the lead-up to the Iraq War was killed by editors, who then ran a piece by Paul Farhi that defends their coverage instead.
The Problem of Tying Teachers' Pay to Student Test Performance
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran an open letter to college professors written by retiring high school teacher Kenneth Bernstein that read, in part:
The Washington Post, New York Times and a Bunch of Other News Organizations Helped Keep a CIA Drone Base Secret
We would all like to know as much as we can about the Obama Administration's top-secret program of assassinating U.S. citizens with drones, so we can figure out how best not to get assassinated. But don't look to the pages of U.S. newspapers like the Washington Post, which cooperated with the Administration to…
Will This Latest Violent Incident Make Humans Stop Liking Violent Entertainment?
The Washington Post bills Ann Hornaday's essay on movies today ("I don't know where this national discussion will wind up," is her unproductive conclusion) on the front page of its website like so: "Have audiences had enough of guns, violence and blood at the movies? After the Newtown tragedy, will screen violence…