Michael Arrington Quotes
I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
Arrington, Michael. "On Journalism and Conflicts of Interest." Uncrunched, Uncrunched LLC, 2011.
The intelligence agencies had in many cases not shared critical information with the oversight committees and the White House and in a number of cases actually lied to them.
The original charge of biological weapons was made by the Afghan Mudhjadeen, who had retrieved a substance from an area the Russians had shelled. Some Americans echoed the charges and upon inspection, the substance turned out to be bees wax and droppings. Some CIA officials thought that true of not, the charge amounted to good propaganda eliciting the ambassador’s response.
J. Michael Arrington is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.