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But at the same time, the U.S. was moving to sever its last remaining ties to Chalabi. The decision to cut Chalabi's U.S. funding--a $335,000 monthly retainer paid by the DIA to the I.N.C. as part of the Information Collection Program (ICP), an I.N.C.-run operation aimed...
Kennedy confidant and journalist Ben Bradlee has his initials tattooed on his right buttock, with a snake wrapped around them. You can read this little fact either as part of what book reviewers like to call a "wealth of historical detail" or as symptomatic of a fetishistic interest in the...
Rice had no direct experience in dealing with Islamic nations or terrorism. That in itself was no bar to her continuing to perform the three tasks that she sees as central to her job--acting as an adviser and confidant to the President, performing as his staff officer on national...
And so plaintiffs and defendants traipse up a dirt-packed alleyway in Najaf to a courtyard filled with women draped in black and men wearing suit jackets over religious robes. Trials are held in small, barren rooms where judges and supplicants sit on the floor. Though most cases involve family...
This decision targets the entire Chirac system, striking at the man at the top of that system—Chirac —via his closest ally and confidant.