• Three quarters of the oil that spilled from the Deepwater Horizon well is gone—it has evaporated, been captured, or, who knows, gone on a bender in the French Quarter—and the remaining oil is so diluted that it poses little further risk, a government report says. Also, Bp says the "static kill" operation is working. [NY Times] • Reporter Michael Hastings, who wrote the Rolling Stone article that led to General Stanley McChrystal’s resignation, has been denied the opportunity to be embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He says his request was approved and then revoked, but the Defense Department says it was never approved. The discussion at the Pentagon probably went something like this: “Hastings? Did you say ‘hate him’?” [The Guardian] • New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted yesterday not to give landmark status to the 19th-century building that is the proposed site of the so-called Ground Zero mosque.
- 8/4/2010
- Vanity Fair
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