First Read (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
NBC’s Jim Popkin took a look back at some past open mic gaffes on TODAY. When it comes to being caught on an open-mic, Jesse Jackson is hardly alone. Even presidents have learned the hard way that when you're in public life, someone is almost always listening. He joined a not-so exclusive club of political figures, presidential contenders and presidents caught on mic and off guard. Everyone...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
... ... searching for [Obama's] ... term paper," supposedly a thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament, Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer, reported in late July. Although he could find it, he wrote in an e-mail to NBC News that "A thesis entitled Nuclear Disarmament, written at the height of The Cold War in 1983, might shed some light upon what Barack Obama thought about our most...
First Read (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Jim Popkin Fred Baron, John Edwards' campaign finance chairman and longtime confidante, told NBC News in telephone interviews, he has been providing financial assistance to both Andrew Young and Rielle Hunter. Young is the married Edwards campaign staffer who has admitted to fathering Hunter's child. Earlier today, Edwards admitted to also having an affair with Hunter....
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative ProducerThe Justice Department made it official today and formally cleared former "person of interest" Dr. Steven Hatfill of any involvement in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001.The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia , of Washington, D.C. It states: "We have concluded, based on lab access records, witness accounts, and other information,...
Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
NBC's Jim Popkin: The hunt for Obama’s senior “thesis” began with a throwaway line in a newspaper article last October. The New York Times story, on Obama’s early New York years, mentioned in passing that the presidential contender had majored in political science at Columbia and had spent his time “writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.” Journalists began hounding Columbia
First Read (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
NBC Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin looks at "Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'" in an item on NBC blog Deep Background . Conservative provocateurs have been hunting for it. Investigative journalists have been on the prowl, too. Even a former professor has been searching through old boxes for his copy of it. But today Barack Obama made it official: He doesn’t have and can’t...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
5 men plead guilty in trans-Atlantic airline plotBut defendants maintain they never intended to cause midair carnageTerrorism video July 13: The FBI recently issued a bulletin alerting U.S. law enforcement officials that hundreds of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters have escaped from prisons worldwide. As NBC’s Jim Popkin reports, many terror experts fear they could pose a growing threat. Newsweek:...
