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U.S. Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
Chilling. In the tortureds’ own words. US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites is the name of the cover article in the April 9 issue of the New York Review of Books. This is a must-read article… more →
IT DAWNED ON ME
Nightstand 2013: Week Twenty-One
wrote 12 hours ago: What I’m reading this week: “A Convenient Excuse” by Wen Stephenson (The Boston Phoenix, November 5, … more →
Would you like to own your very own Governor/politician?
wrote 1 day ago: Jane Mayer at the 2008 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) … more →
Obama vs. the Press
wrote 1 day ago: Margaret Talbot | The New Yorker | Reader Supported News | May 19, 2013 When I was a teen-ager and s … more →
'War on Whistleblowers' can be a war on democracy
wrote 3 weeks ago: Just how important is national security in a post-9/11 United States? Just how important is the trut … more →
CHARLES MURRAY’S GAY-MARRIAGE SURPRISE
wrote 2 months ago: THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY MARCH 15, 2013 POSTED BY JANE MAYER 968 PRINT MORE 12 Political scie … more →
Ted Cruz and the Future of the Republican Party
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wrote 2 months ago: Ted Cruz questions Chuck Hagel at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The Republican Party has a new … more →
Ted Cruz Reaches for the Chuck Hagel Defense.
wrote 2 months ago: Ted Cruz was so aggressive during Chuck Hagel‘s confirmation hearing that he was reprimanded b … more →
Ted Cruz Responds: Harvard Law Was Full of Communists
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wrote 2 months ago: A few days ago New Yorker reporter, Jane Mayer, wrote an article on the newly seated but high-profil … more →
Torture and Zero Dark Thirty
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wrote 4 months ago: I won’t see the film but I’m interested in the debate over its depiction of torture. In … more →
The intelligence community's meritocracy in action
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wrote 4 months ago: Summary: A combination of events has provide a window into the operation of the CIA. The leaks abou … more →
Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side
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wrote 5 months ago: “And in fact when the FBI saw what was going on and how the CIA intended to treat him, they w … more →
Statement From SecrecyKills Filmmakers
wrote 5 months ago: On the trail of the CIA Officers who hid the San Diego Cell 9/11 hijackers from the FBI and from Whi … more →
2012: The Year in Almosts
wrote 5 months ago: I tend to share Emily Nussbaum’s skepticism about the annual “Top Ten list” ritual … more →
Drones: a history in tweets
wrote 5 months ago: Josh Begley, realizing how little Americans know or understand about their own country’s drone … more →
Election Ads 2012: a Postmortem
wrote 5 months ago: The November 19th issue of The New Yorker contains an interesting “Talk of the Town” pie … more →
Blackwater and CIA Renditions
wrote 6 months ago: English: So-called “rendition” illegal flights of the CIA, as reported by Rzeczpospolita … more →
Cliff Kincaid -- Petraeus Sex Scandal Could Have Sunk Obama... ("Because of Cantor’s failure to go public...")
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wrote 6 months ago: A week before the election, an FBI whistleblower went to a Republican member of Congress with explos … more →
Americans Who Tell the Truth | Portraits by Robert Shetterly |
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wrote 6 months ago: I had the pleasure of recently attending a lecture, as part of a local college LVC’s “Happines … more →
Maximize U.S. Voting!
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wrote 6 months ago: On November 6th the U.S. will have a very important national election. This should remind us that a … more →
