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A Spook SpeaksA Spy Describes the Intelligence Failures That Led to the 9/11 Attacks
By Barbara Koeppel
By Barbara Koeppel
Thomas Drake, a brilliant intelligence analyst, software engineer, and IT management consultant, worked at the CIA in the 1980s, then as a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), and ultimately
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Judging Drake
By Lou Dubose
By Lou Dubose
At Thomas Drake’s July 2011 sentencing hearing, United States District Judge Richard D. Bennett appeared to be angrier at the federal government than the defendant he was sentencing. Below, the judge addressing Drake: But
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The Narcissism of Small Differences
By Chase Madar
By Chase Madar
Reviewed: The Crisis of Zionism, by Peter Beinart (Times Books, 304 pp., $26). Peter Beinart’s new book has provoked great uproar among American supporters of Israel, although it is hard to see why. First
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NPR’s Monday morning story on voting in Florida brings into sharp focus the “moral equivalency” by which reporters become part of the problem th...
"I knew that my work with then-Senator Barack Obama would be used against me, even if our relationship were overhyped. I also knew from the race...
I’m writing this obit (actually two, one for a Senator and one for a political party) a day early, but it appears that Indiana Senator Richard L...
