Veteran CBC investigative producer Harvey Cashore is out with an interesting-sounding new book about former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Airbus affair, titled The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter's Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber and the Airbus Scandal.

Vast trove of Afghanistan-related internal U.S. military documents released by WikiLeaks here. The nonprofit has organized the files by category (e.g. from "assassination" to "unexploded ordinance"), region, date, severity, etc., including links explaining military jargon and Google maps locations. ProPublica has argued the files are "no Pentagon Papers" - the 1971 military leak that helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.

Congrats to a team of enterprising UBC journalism students for their nomination for two Emmy Awards for this doc that tracked what happens to trashed computers, cellphones and TVs. Hundreds of millions of kilos of electronic garbage, which contains toxic material like mercury, lead and brominated flame retardants, have wound up in dumps in Ghana, where it is causing a big environmental mess, reported the doc, which aired on PBS Frontline/World.

The U.S. government's intelligence apparatus has gotten so massive after 9/11 that even top-level insiders are expressing frustration about trying to keep tabs on it. This is the finding of a fascinating two-year Washington Post investigation into the exploding U.S. spy world. Among its findings: Over 1,200 government organizations and 1,900 private companies work in the U.S. intelligence machine.

Here's another one from the post-9/11 annals of security obsession: A news photographer snapping pix of a town's sign in Texas found himself detained and aggressively questioned by cops in two squad cars, a rather edgy local FBI/Homeland Security agent and, last but not least, a security guard from oil giant BP.

Interesting story here from Mother Jones about a U.S. federal probe into human-rights investigators who managed to track down and snap pics of CIA officers. The photos were taken as part of the legal defence of 9/11 detainees who say they were tortured and need to ID their tormentors in court. Instead of probing the abuse allegations, the Obama administration has gone after the human-rights workers. Nice touch.

Print is dying. Investigative reporting is a money-loser. Those seem to be the truisms of the age. And they're perpetrated as much by digital writers as print media managers themselves. But as this New York Times piece on Rolling Stone magazine's recent series of investigative coups shows, those truisms ain't so true after all.

Interesting Q&A here with The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten, winner of two Pulitzers, about his writing process.

Sorry for the long delay in posts. There was a technical glitch that we've only now gotten resolved. I've continued to post at my Investigate This! blog at my own site through this time. Check there if you want to see what you've been missing. Below I've just put up the latest few posts from that site.