RUDY GIULIANI IN LONDON: A transcript.

WITHOUT EVEN A SUBPOENA: Here’s a report of Newsweek outing a source.

Never give them anything without a clear acknowledgment that they’ll keep it secret. Then you’ve got a breach of contract action if they don’t. Otherwise, you’re trusting their discretion rather more than is wise.

LOTS OF INTERESTING STUFF AT VODKAPUNDIT: Just keep scrolling.

THEY RAISED THE BRITISH FLAG AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT: “It was the first time a foreign flag has been raised at the State Department.”

Publius has the photo.

PAUL WOLFOWITZ: The Exit Interview.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON exercises a bit too much Internet triumphalism regarding speedy coverage of the London bombing. The NYT’s website was on the story fast. But the first mention I could find on the HuffPo’s newspage was from 9:17 a.m.

At any rate, I think that Tim Porter does a better job of sounding a similar theme.

UPDATE: Wow, Greg Gutfeld is a lot harder on Arianna than I was.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ouch again. Jeez, I’m nicer than everybody.

THE BELMONT CLUB:

Just a few comments in the aftermath of the attack on London. The first and most important hard fact to grasp is that this Al Qaeda strike, their first against an Anglosphere city since 9/11, has caused much less damage than that on New York. This despite the fact that Al Qaeda has had nearly four years to brood on its humiliations and losses and to plot its revenge. The reasons for this are simple: the enemy is now operating in a much more hostile environment. The accessible methods of mass destruction, such as wide body aircraft, have been secured; not perfectly, but for a defense to work it must only be sufficient to blunt the onslaught of the enemy. Increased surveillance, tighter controls on movement, etc have all played their part. The second reason the enemy is weaker is Iraq. It is widely accepted that thousands of Al Qaeda fighters, the cream of their rancid crop, is fighting to expel the American infidel from the Land Between the Rivers. A moment’s reflection will show that if they are there they cannot be elsewhere — in London, Paris, Rome or Boston — sowing bombs on buses and trains. Furthermore, fear in formerly smug circles within Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya at sharing the fate of Saddam have left terrorists have fewer powerful confederates.

There’s more. Read the whole thing.

EUGENE VOLOKH HAS THOUGHTS on detention of enemy combatants.

UNSCAM UPDATE: Claudia Rosett points to another flow of diverted cash. (Via Newsbeat 1).

SEVERAL READERS HAVE SENT THIS LINK:

7 July 2005; 12:54 ET: Preliminary reports from a source inside the Pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning’s bombings in London was recently released from the prison at Guantanamo.

I have not found the Homelandsecurity.us site especially great in the past, so I’d wait for confirmation on this.

TERRY HEATON forwards a report from an American media executive on local coverage of the London bombings. Excerpt: “Some of the most profoundly memorable pictures of this tragic event were not shot by professionals, but rather by folks with cell phone cameras.” Until the authorities shut down the cell network.

NORM GERAS offers a catalog of jihadist achievements. Here’s a small excerpt:

9. They murder trade unionists.

10. They kidnap diplomats.

11. They kill people for being… barbers.

They must be so proud.

TOM MAGUIRE hasn’t let other events put him off the Plame / Wilson / Miller / Cooper scent. “Yes, post-London this topic seems utterly lame, but momentum is carrying me now.” Plus, praise for Atrios!

UPDATE: Kaus thinks the case against Rove is getting stronger.

HERE’S AN EDITOR’S NOTE from the New York Times about the liberties taken with Phil Carter’s oped. Michael Barone emails:

I have one or two unanswered questions about the New York Times opinion editor adding two sentences to Phil Carter’s opinion article.

(1) Is the editor still working at the Times?

(2) If so, why?

Adding these sentences is totally irresponsible journalism. It is particularly offensive when it attributes these sentences to Carter who seems, from my reading of his work, to be very thoughtful and creative.

If the current editors of the New York Times want to convince us that they’re trying to run a fair newspaper, they could make some progress toward that goal by firing the editor responsible.

I worked on the editorial page at the Washington Post under Meg Greenfield. She also edited the opinion pages. I have a fairly good idea of what she would have thought of this. But perhaps Gail Collins has different standards.

I’ve never had an editor try to do anything like that to one of my pieces, but I’ve gotten emails from other people who’ve had similar experiences. My advice to editors who want to publish their own ideas under another name: Get a blog!

MARK STEYN will be on Hugh Hewitt’s show tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern, talking about the London bombings.

THE LAW AND TERRORISM PAGE is worth your time.

UPDATE: Here are some interesting observations about the location of the attacks in London. “I have talked to a few people who have pointed out that Edgware, Aldgate (and Moorgate) and King’s Cross all are in or adjacent to Muslim communities. King’s Cross is the locale of The School of Oriental and African Studies, a highly respected institution teaching and researching Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It is possible that the attacks were as much directed at the Muslim population as much as the city at large.”

Nathan Lanier’s roundup post is huge.

HERE’S AN INTERESTING ANIMATED MAP of casualties in Iraq day by day over the past couple of years. As Bill Quick notes, it adds perspective. Here’s commentary from The Belmont Club, too.

It’s certainly a lot more useful than the map of U.S. casualties by hometown that had some people excited last week, since it provides actual perspective on what’s happening.

UPDATE: Here’s an interview with Tim Klimowicz, the map’s creator.

TIM RUSSO is glad the blogosphere was smaller on 9/11.

UPDATE: Reader Kenneth Hitchens emails:

Didn’t Rove get excoriated by the Dems because he said Liberals have a
weak response to terror? Does Kos and the Gang know they are proving Rove right at this very moment? Does Kos and the Gang know every quote on their sites will be PDFd and used against them in every election from here to eternity?

I don’t think they worry about things like that. But Ken Livingstone is sounding tough!

FROM THE TIMES OF LONDON:

Bloggers call for protests and solidarity
By Rhys Blakely, Times Online

Bloggers have called for a mass protest against today’s bombings and have insisted that Londoners will not be intimidated by the string of attacks on their city.

“The outrages in London are the work of enemies of humanity. There should be massive demonstrations throughout Britain this weekend to show our solidarity against them,” said Paul Anderson on the libsoc blog.

Read the whole thing.

OVER AT TECHCENTRALSTATION, Tim Worstall offers historical perspective. So does Rand Simberg.

HERE’S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on blog coverage of the London bombings. It has links to some interesting stuff. (No subscription required).

IN THE MAIL: Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind The Military Mind, by Nancy Sherman. She concludes that we all need to be a bit more stoical these days. Seems like an appropriate book to receive today.

BLOGGING FROM OXFORD, Derek Catsam has thoughts:

This should not have come as a surprise, though attacks like this always come as a shock. With the successful London Olympic bid and Live 8 and the long-planned G8 meeting, London was an obvious target. The world’s attention is on this part of the world, never moreso than now. But London, England, the UK will not be cowed. Tony Blair is clearly resolute. The world will rally behind the British people. Al Qaeda, or whoever did this, will not win, though in the short-term they were able to turn one of the most exciting times in recent British history into one of the most tragic. . . .

I certainly will not be deterred from going to the capital, and if anything, I am probably likely to go there more often, not less, as the next month-and-a-half progresses.

Good. Some related thoughts at The Mudville Gazette.

TREY JACKSON has video of Tony Blair, London mayor Ken Livingstone, and George W. Bush denouncing the terror attacks in London.

UPDATE: Ann Haker wonders if Ken Livingstone is learning. We’ll see.

THERE’S LOTS OF STUFF at the Counterterrorism Blog. And I’ve been updating the earlier London bombing post, so scroll down. And there’s more here: “The London bombings are likely part of a wider al Qaeda summer offensive.”