You do not have a post on this story (yet), but may I suggest you encourage your readers to write to the L.A. Times and encourage them to release the Khalidi tape?

Here is the text of the letter I just sent. I invite you to post it as a template for any interested in following suit:

“I’m writing to request you release the tape of Senator Obama speaking with (or about) Professor Rashid Khalidi.

While partisans will no doubt bicker over the significance of the tape’s meaning, the tape itself holds material of direct importance to the public.

It is in the public’s interest to have all available materials on a given candidate. Indeed, the well-being of civil society depends on the free exchange of information.

Please release this tape so we may have direct access to its contents and may evaluate it solely on its own merits.

Thank you for your kind attention to these vital matters.

Sincerely,”