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Politics

The President Needs His Dish

Marc Ambinder
April 30, 2009

Andrew Sullivan and I have been told fairly regularly that President Obama reads his blog and has been influenced by Sullivan's writing on torture.  We seem to have some proof now.... (A senior administration official confirms that Obama was citing Sullivan.)

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