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...subsidiary subcontracted to feed the troops: "Why the f--- am I sitting out here guarding a truck full of cheesecake?" he laments. After another guardsman supplies a Bush Administration-approved justification for their presence (freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people, stability in the Middle East), the cameraman asks, "tell me how you really feel." Deadpan, he continues: "After that happens, maybe we can buy everybody in the world a puppy...
...conversations with Chinese president Jiang" in Texas. At some point prosecutors say, the spy became his lover and Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair--and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife--also a spy--got even weirder...
...Lyons is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors' filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple's home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser's case, Lyons--who hasn't been charged--admitted she and Keyser had failed "to properly secure" her husband's secret material...
...Baghdad in 2004, and now he is sick, he says, with an infection of his hip. He has no medicine and can't work at his job as a janitor anymore. As his eyes tear up, he pleads with me to call his sister in Baghdad to tell her he is alive. At this point, he breaks down and cries...
...Walking and driving around the streets, I noticed a peculiar trait of Beirut: it's not always possible to tell the difference between the old war damage and the new. Beirut is ramshackle and delightfully dilapidated in some parts - mostly the poor Shi'a parts, which are also the main target areas. Sometimes you realize that a balcony that appears freshly shorn off actually collapsed in the 1980s...