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David Isenberg: Thomas Powers on Ike Eisenhower – He Got the Big Things Right

He Got the Big Things Right Thomas Powers New York Times, April 26, 2012 Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton Doubleday, 451 pp., $29.95 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Random House, 950 pp., $40.00 Bettmann/Corbis When the youngest man to be elected president of the United States was inaugurated …

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Marcus Aurelius: Jose Rodriguez, the Ollie North of CIA

Rodriguez is dumb enough to take this as a complement.   His Wikipedia page looks like it was written by CIA PAO. Ex-CIA official says tapes destroyed to prevent al Qaeda reprisals (Reuters) – Jose Rodriguez said it took a “few hours” to destroy 92 videotapes showing his CIA colleagues using harsh interrogation techniques – including …

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Mini-Me: The Bin Laden Road Show – Toward November 2012

Huh? Bin Laden’s last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy Joby Warrick Washington Post, April 30, 9:01 PM A few months before Osama bin Laden’s death, Web sites linked to al-Qaeda ran excited commentary about a proposed new killing machine dubbed the “human lawn mower.” The idea was to attach rotating blades to …

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Marcus Aurelius: CIA Panetta Memo on Presidential Authorization of Bin Laden Hit

As posted at http://cryptocomb.org/cia-memo-panetta.jpg. Phi Beta Iota:  This may well be authentic, but it is highly suspect.  A signed Presidential finding is needed for such a project, one does not undertake such initiatives without that written document, nor accept a phone call from a lesser aide as a substitute–nor should JSOG be doing anything without …

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Review (Guest): TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban”

Jesselyn Radack 5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Important,February 8, 2012 David C N Swanson (Charlottesville VA United States) – See all my reviews (REAL NAME) It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but …

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Mini-Me: Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter

Huh? Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter A Twitter analytics company that said it detected Osama bin Laden’s death before it was reported by the news media has signed a partnership with Twitter, and is expanding the availability of its service for notifying financial firms and government clients of highly unusual events. …

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