Author: BooMan

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Al Gore was a tough debater until he met George W. Bush and got an attack of the sighs. He famously bested Dan Quayle and Ross Perot in early 1990’s debates. One debate I remember particularly was between Gore and Bill...

Are you surprised? The Democratic chairmen of the Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees are at odds over whether a special counsel should investigate the circumstances that led to the deletion of videotapes showing the...

The right-wing Israeli reaction to the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is downright insane. I mean, really…could we have any more hyperbole? …the NIE shows that the US double-crossed Israel. By placing the...

Reality, according to Jim Hoagland: The intelligence community — and particularly the CIA, which was conceived as an exclusive tool for the president’s use in making and executing his most difficult decisions — has today...