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| SCOTT HORTON—THE ART OF INTELLIGENCE : SIX QUESTIONS FOR HENRY CRUMPTON | Published: 22/06/12 |
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Henry Crumpton spent twenty-four years in the CIA’s clandestine service. His work put him at the forefront of the agency’s counterterrorism efforts, and on the front lines as America took on the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan following 9/11. His recently published recollections offer an exceptionally deep glimpse into the CIA’s counterterrorism operations in the last decade of the twentieth century. I put six questions to Crumpton about his bestselling book The Art of Intelligence: . . .
| GEORGE S. (GEORGE STANLEY) MCGOVERN—A LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA | Published: 22/10/12 |
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When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in the depth of the Great Depression, he sought to stabilize and empower American society by introducing bold new initiatives: Social Security, the Public Works Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Rural Electrification Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Agricultural A...
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| KEVIN BAKER—THE RIGHT TIME | Published: 17/10/12 |
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Caught in a lie, and a nasty and stupid one at that, he still did not back off, plunging on until he reached lows of demagoguery approached only in this campaign by . . . his running mate, Paul Ryan, in the last debate. Throughout the debate, Mr. Romney lied brazenly, without hesitation or compunction. He lied in big ways and small, lied cleverly and foolishly, lied as if he couldn’t help hi...
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| JOHN R. MACARTHUR—IS OBAMA MERELY WARMING THE SEAT FOR CHICAGO POLITICS? | Published: 17/10/12 |
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“All politics is local,” said the late U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, and local political power imposed on the country at large is why I had traveled here—to refresh my memory about why it largely still runs the Democratic Party and, for the time being, the United States. I had come to the Southwest Side to interview Alderman Edward Burke, the longtime Democratic leader of th...
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| MR. FISH—A CARTOON | Published: 28/09/12 |
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| J. G. VACCARO—WEEKLY REVIEW | Published: 18/09/12 |
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The release of a 14-minute YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a homosexual womanizer, triggered mass demonstrations and riots across more than a dozen countries.[1][2][3] Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and lowered the American flag, replacing it with an Islamist banner, and in Libya Islamist militants armed w...
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| ANAND GOPAL—SYRIA’S SUMMER OF STALEMATE | Published: 15/09/12 |
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In the August issue of Harper’s Magazine, I detailed the travails of the rebel-held Syrian town of Taftanaz, which had suffered a two-day massacre at the hands of the Syrian army. Hundreds of homes were demolished and whole families slaughtered—yet somehow the revolutionary movement survived intact. In the months since my April visit, the story remains much the same: perseverance in the face o...
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| MR. FISH—A CARTOON | Published: 15/09/12 |
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| SCOTT HORTON—BOSS ROVE’S JUSTICE | Published: 13/09/12 |
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“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can’t remember the second.” That quip was offered by Mark Hanna during the first modern professional presidential campaign, that of William McKinley in 1896. But it could just as easily have been voiced by Hanna’s modern understudy, Karl Rove, the man who emerged as the undeniable mastermind of the G.O.P. follo...
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| KEVIN BAKER—YBOR STORIES | Published: 13/09/12 |
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Some may conclude from reading this blog that I believe downtown Tampa to be a soulless, sun-blasted hellhole made up of little besides empty sidewalks, endless parking lots, and sterile glass boxes. Some would be right. But there are many other parts of the Tampa Bay area that have real style and character. My own favorite is Ybor City, which was where Jack and I stayed during our sole- and sou...
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| JOHN R. MACARTHUR—OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN DUPLICITIES RIVAL ROMNEY’S AND RYAN’S | Published: 12/09/12 |
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I don’t disagree that Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are dishonest propagandists (Ryan posing as the future savior of Medicare is the most laughable lie to date), but why isn’t Obama being held to the same standard? While the Republicans get slammed for reading back the president’s words to their advantage, Obama gets a free ride from liberals about his own double talk, especially on matters indu...
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