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...When you start to think about the vast digital databases that shadow our lives, the general incomprehension about the Middle East, and the readiness to blacklist people - guilt by association - you start to suspect George Orwell was right. And, incidentally, it doesn't have to be this way. Before 9/11, the FBI and CIA sifted through tens of thousands of terrorist leads every day. Ninety nine point nine per cent turn out to be bogus. The names never made it onto national master list and stayed in the raw files where they belonged. We missed 9/11, but not because...
...example, I do not understand how this $700 billion bailout we have all agreed to is supposed to work. Do you? Does Tom Brokaw? Do Obama and McCain? I suspect that one of them does and the other doesn't. But I don't know. I can't help thinking it would be nice to have a President who understands it. That's the kind of leader we want: one who could get us back to business as usual...
...When French conservatives swept to power in 2002 on a get-tough platform to battle crime and illegal immigration, the government dumped the Mitterrand amnesty as ethically suspect - to the great satisfaction of Italy. It was under that revised position that Petrella was arrested following a routine identity check in 2007, when police noticed that the original Italian warrant for her apprehension that had been reactivated in legal databases. To many in France - where sympathy with reformed leftist radicals is widespread - the right's welching of the Mitterrand amnesty left Petrella unfairly hanging out to dry. Some also claim...
...News that our folks can’t get any airtime. Dick, you got any plans for reuniting the gang?” “Well, I was creeping around the old CIA storehouse like always, looking for wiretap microphones. (My office ran out, and I suspect the pool guy at the Wyoming house has been inviting Soviet apparatchiks over to parties when I’m away.) At any rate, I found a few leftover exploding cigars—might be time to have a little reunion at the Capital Grille…Show...
...fourth suspect, Sin Dorn, 52, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison for having assisted in the abduction of Howes and Houn, who were conducting a humanitarian de-mining mission for the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) when they were taken hostage. A fifth defendant in the case was found not guilty...