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...terrorism has spurred the intelligence community to flout legal conventions at home and abroad. Risen's chief target is the CIA, where, he argues, institutional dysfunction and feckless leadership after 9/11 led to intelligence breakdowns that continue to haunt the U.S. Though much of State of War covers ground that is broadly familiar, the book is punctuated with a wealth of previously unreported tidbits about covert meetings, aborted CIA operations and Oval Office outbursts. The result is a brisk, if dispiriting, chronicle of how, since 9/11, the "most covert tools of national-security policy have been misused...
...drug to market. In the scientific community, biodefense is viewed as yet another boondoggle that is sucking money and resources from critical public-health needs like new antibiotics and vaccines. Indeed, the consensus outside the Administration is that the program is broken before it even gets off the ground. "BioShield has failed miserably," says Jerome Hauer, a former senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). "The intent of BioShield was to attract new companies to get involved in developing countermeasures. It has not only failed to do that; it has kept a lot of other companies...
...students, who later nicknamed themselves "Survivors of Midwest Flight 210" in an ironic facebook group, said the landing was far from death-defying and had been sensationalized in media coverage on the ground...
...parents were very, very upset about the situation," she said. "It was a lot worse for everyone on the ground...
...they do, it will be thanks not only to divine intervention but to an extraordinarily wide-ranging effort on the ground. Scattered in some 75 camps throughout Kashmir is an eclectic mix of professional aid workers, foreign volunteers, Islamic extremists and soldiers (Pakistan alone has committed about 40,000 troops to relief efforts). In some cases, old adversaries have set aside their enormous differences, at least for now. Before the quake, the mountain valleys of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir were off-limits to outsiders. Called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) by the Pakistanis, the area was cordoned off by the army because...