Earlier this year a Philadelphia City Paper writer received e-mails from one "Mr. Fantastic" offering information and pictures from within one of the Army's top-secret facilities, Editor Howard Altman writes. Now Maurice Threats, 21, an Army MP, has been indicted on charges of espionage and bribery. "This case came from calls that City Paper placed to us," Martin Carlson, assistant U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, tells Altman. However, federal prosecutors won't confirm that Threats and "Mr. Fantastic" are the same person. [This is an updated version of last week's story.]
"Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press," but they should look in the mirror, Peter Byrne and Matt Palmquist write in SF Weekly. Take "Project Censored," for example, "a hallowed fixture of the alternative press." They find nine of the 10 stories listed this year as under-reported or ignored have in fact received prominent coverage by mainstream institutions like the New York Times, and that even Mother Jones, a bastion of the left, has slammed Project Censored. SF Weekly's rival, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, each year gives the Project Censored story prominent play.
Sierra Countis of Chico News & Review interviews Jack Mallory, the Navy dentist who in 1946 made a new set of dentures for General Hideki Tojo, the notorious Japanese prime minister who ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mallory made the imprisoned general a nice set of upper dentures, with the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor" etched upon them in Morse Code. Mallory's superior officer got wind of the prank and said, "That's funny as hell, but we could get our asses kicked for doing it."
