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Before current Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, the biographies of the last two Democratic presidential candidates were woefully lacking in any sort of military accomplishment. Far too much has been written already about Clinton’s draft dodging and Al Gore’s “front-line” reporting, and I will not devolve into tired character attacks. While neither man could be accused of dereliction of duty or outright cowardice, it was certainly true that they preferred to focus on domestic concerns at the expense of foreign policy and military issues. Their contrast with Kerry...
...work. An assistant inserted the material into a manuscript and intended for another assistant to summarize the passage, according to Ogletree’s statement. The first assistant inadvertently dropped the end quote, and the second assistant accidentally deleted the attribution to Balkin before sending a draft to the publisher...
...When the draft returned, Ogletree did not realize that it was not his material, he said in the statement...
...young people are afraid of the draft. It’s a real possibility,” he said...
According to a former U.S. government source, the material Franklin passed to AIPAC included a draft of a National Security Presidential Directive dealing with U.S. policy on Iran. The document, a source says, had gone through several versions without ever achieving the status of official U.S. policy because of deep disagreements within the Administration over how to cope with Iran. A source familiar with multiple drafts of the document said it was a "glorified Op-Ed looking at how engagement [with Iran] doesn't work and how the U.S. needs a more robust strategy." A former senior U.S. official...