Dan Froomkin

HuffPostTV: Dan Froomkin Talks Mine Safety On C-SPAN (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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HuffPost Senior Washington Correspondent Dan Froomkin appeared on C-SPAN on Friday to discuss coal mine safety and a recent National Press Club appear...

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'The Road From Ruin' LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW HERE TODAY 11am EST: Economist Writer Matthew Bishop And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin

Posted 12.11.2011

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It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the f...

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'Road From Ruin' LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW TOMORROW 11am EST: Economist Writer Matthew Bishop And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin

Amy Hertz | Posted 12.09.2011

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It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the financial crisis.

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Dan Froomkin Discusses The Administration's Response To Gulf Oil Spill On MSNBC (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huffington Post Senior Washington Correspondent Dan Froomkin appeared on MSNBC today, with Tamron Hall, to discuss the Obama administration's response...

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Popping the Washington Post's Rahm Bubble

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rather than fighting to save his own skin and to skewer others who are in and out of the Oval Office nearly as much as he is, Emanuel needs to help champion a sensible transition to a more effective team.

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'Shadow Elite' Author Interview: Janine Wedel And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin Discuss January's Book Club Pick (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Did you miss it? We've wrapped up our exploration of Arianna's second book club pick, Janine Wedel's "Shadow Elite". To finish things off, HuffPost W...

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Dan Froomkin: Economic Warnings We Need To Worry About (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Froomkin appeared on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon to discuss his latest article, "7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About." In h...

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Think Again: Blame Gitmo

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservative temperatures rose shortly after Christmas when reports surfaced that members of a group that took "credit" for the failed "underpants" attack had previously been detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.

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How Much More Pathetic Can the Washington Post Get? Sarah Palin

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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What possible justification on Earth is there for the Post to publish Sarah Palin on its op-ed page ? She has no authority to write an article like today's piece on cap-and-trade.

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Nielsen Numbers Back Froomkin: Suggest He Wasn't Only One at Wash Post to Lose Audience

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Froomkin has alleged that, in recent months, many at the Washington Post lost a lot of audience. So why was he singled out?

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Dan Froomkin's Firing Leaves Post With Glut Of Neocons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, now that Dan Froomkin's been fired, what's the Washington Post looking like today? I think that Glenn Greenwald neatly sums it up: --Neocon Char...

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WaPo Fires Dan Froomkin, Stalwart Voice On Torture (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have to say that I greet today's decision by the Washington Post to fire blogger and columnist Dan Froomkin to be both sad and alarming. Froomkin h...

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Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.

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Abu Ghraib Ties To Gitmo Shown By DOJ Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, in his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney protested that everyone had Abu Ghraib all wrong! ...

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When the President Orders, the Military Follows

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I believe Congress will be in lockstep with the President on a repeal of DADT. At the end of this year, the law that bars gay men and women from serving openly in the military can be gone.

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Right On Cue, The White House Press Corps Awakens From Its Bush Slumber

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beltway reporters have tossed aside the blanket of calm that had descended on them during the previous administration, a blanket of calm that defined their Bush coverage.

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