Author: BooMan

NSA: A Trip Down Memory Lane

Memory Lane: 20 March 2000. Thanks to Michael Evans, National Security Archive. Source: Faxed hardcopy. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE A collection of articles on the historical, operational, doctrinal, and...

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Open Thread

Have I mentioned that Comcast sucks? They just lost their signal for two hours. &*/%#@’ers. So, what’s your favorite cartoon? Mine is Tortoise Beats Hare. “Clean livin’, Bub, clean...

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Katrina Babies: A Fantasy

Defying the experts that predicted that the Democrats would pick up between 12-25 seats in the 2006 midterms, they picked up a shocking 38 seats. Seemingly safe seats in Arizona, New Hampshire, Idaho, and Wyoming fell into the...

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On Shadi Hamid: Exporting Democracy

It is with a good bit of sorrow that I feel the need to criticize Shadi Hamid’s essay, The Wisdom of Exporting Democracy. Hamid begins with an argument that I have been making for months. It’s not our lifestyles and...

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