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That's why when Perle invited Laurent Murawiec, a senior Rand Corp. analyst, to give a briefing on the kingdom, it stirred up such a fuss. "I didn't know what he was going to say, but he had done some serious research on Saudi Arabia," Perle told TIME. In fact, Murawiec's work for Rand has not focused on Saudi Arabia...
...defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg had helped to compile the extensive study, which revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution—in which Congress permitted increased U.S. military involvement in Vietnam—had been drafted months before the North Vietnamese attacked U.S. naval vessels in the gulf. It also revealed that, while President Lyndon B. Johnson had publicly described the war as a short-term battle, he oversaw a massive commitment of infantry to Vietnam...
...results came from an annual survey on giving to colleges and universities conducted by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a nonprofit group established in 1952 to promote corporate support for higher education. CAE is part of the RAND Corporation, a non-profit think tank...
...been reported that former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has asked the question aloud while speculating that as many as five U.S. Supreme Court justices would find torture constitutional in certain circumstances. No forceful denials by any justice have been heard publicly. Bruce Hoffman, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, asks the torture question aloud in the January edition of the Atlantic Monthly, citing a movie about French tactics in Algeria and tactics used in Sri Lanka. President George W. Bush has formulated a new military tribunal to try terrorists that winks at due process. This measure is said...
...Putin's soul and called him a man he could trust. Yet Putin is the elected leader of a newly democratic nation. Jiang, for all his cooperation, presides over a communist country that has thousands of political prisoners. "Crawford is for friends," says James Mulvenon of U.S. research institute Rand. "Many would find the symbolism of that visit hard to justify...