In a comment on Booman’s fine and thoughtful recent post It’s Not Easy to Hold the CIA Accountable, TarheelDem wrote: I started a reply. It grew. Read on for more.Tarheel…you offer an either/or set of choices....
Read MoreJohn Brennan can go now, right Booman? We’ll see. If he knows where all the bodies are buried? Lots of bodies. Probably not. And certainly not except on his own terms. Atlantic Monthly, Conor Friedersdorf, 8/1 2014: Does...
Read MoreThis post started out as a reply to a comment made on Booman’s recent post Can We Just Be Honest, For Once? It grew. Here’s the comment, from Bob In Portland: How would you dismantle the CIA? How many politicians...
Read MoreThe Great United States of America….land of the free and home of the brave. Now reduced to Prisonville. The Undisputed Leader of the Unfree World. (That’s us folks. Bet on it. In more ways than one.) The Leader of...
Read MoreRegarding the current wars in Ukraine and Palestine: A handy list of U.S. war involvement since 1949. Overt and covert. Just in case you’re interested. 49 Greece 50 Korean War 52 Cuba 53 Iran 53 British Guyana 54 Guatemala...
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