That Was Quick: Times Tackles Rudy Story

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Yesterday I complained that the New York Times had ignored a big story: Rudy Giuliani has been assembling a nightmarish group of extremist advisers. Today the Times‘ Michael Cooper and Marc Santora obliged with an A-1 piece on the subject. While “Senior Freedom Adviser” Peter Berkowitz, whom I called attention to yesterday, doesn’t make an appearance, the Times folks did put together a handy chart on Rudy’s foreign policy team. Check it out.

—Justin Elliott