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...hands; commandos at Fort Bragg blasting a Cabinet official for the lack of a strategy to get Osama bin Laden; and Condoleezza Rice telling George W. Bush, "I don't think you can invade another Muslim country ... even for the best of reasons." Sanger uncovers a sheaf of covert operations, like an effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, but concludes that Bush was too rigid and unimaginative to react to challenges beyond Iraq: "The 'decider' became the ditherer." As a result, Barack Obama faces an Iran "that is getting the Bomb," a war in Afghanistan that will keep...
...noticed that Tim Weiner's book Legacy of Ashes has become a report card for the CIA, a final and damning indictment. But what the lay reader might miss is that, while Legacy of Ashes catalogs the failed covert operations and finished intelligence manipulated by the White House - in other words, the politicization of the CIA - it fails to acknowledge the agency's successes. There's more than enough truth in Weiner's book, but what it misses is the point that when the CIA is left to the basics, it does just fine, thank...
...White House, just as the agency needs someone who is able to tell the President no. The only question now is whether Panetta will have the portfolio to do what is absolutely necessary: move the CIA out of Washington and away from politicians, get the CIA out of covert action once and for all, and pay CIA employees what they deserve for the hard work demanded of them...
...According to the BJP, this is a clear-cut case: Muslim fanatics from Pakistan attacked India because they hate democracy and Hindus. It’s possible it’s that simple, but the odds are laughably low. Who knows? Much evidence points to Lakshar-e-Taiba, a covert fundamentalist group, but it’s complicated. Questions about the attacks abound: Why were the jihadist assassins were drunk and high on cocaine? Why did they deliberately murder Hemant Karkare, a man who ousted Hindu extremists as the real culprits in previous incidents, while also shooting people at random...
...title from the dorm room Perkins 28, the alleged epicenter of the homosexual community in 1920. After President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, was alerted to a possible community of homosexual students on campus, he called a secret court to investigate the claims. The proceedings were so covert that the Administrative Board was unaware of the trial until after it occurred. The court files from the committee sat in an unopened box in archives until 2002. Van Devere documents the story of these marginalized men, but he is not seeking to focus criticism on Harvard specifically...