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Barbara Ledeen and her husband, the influential Neo-Con Michael Ledeen, are close friends and political allies of Michael Flynn, who is a central subject of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. According to the...
by MarkC
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on Fri Oct 13, 2017 at 02:04 PM PDT
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The past week has been very kind to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Republican Party.
That might sound like an odd statement to make ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Aug 24, 2014 at 06:00 PM PDT
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In a society that systematically derails reason, evidence alone cannot penetrate such depths of duplicity. As a conduit to the recognition of reality, I inject elements of emotion into my ...
by centurionoftheseed
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on Tue May 13, 2014 at 02:33 PM PDT
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by Jon Perr
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on Mon Jan 13, 2014 at 01:30 PM PST
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France's role in scuttling Iran nuclear deal prompts speculation: The halt in talks sets off a debate on whether France was motivated by commercial or geopolitical interests in the Middle East
A ...
by CIndyCasella
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on Mon Nov 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM PST
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Events in Mali are likely to engage the US in yet another military conflict. Neighboring Niger is a key source of uranium, not to mention oil and gold--and northern Mali is believed to have similar ...
by CharlesII
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on Tue Jan 15, 2013 at 08:23 PM PST
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On Friday, President Obama denounced as "offensive" and "wrong" allegations that he was behind the leaks of U.S. cyber attacks on Iran and the terrorist "
by Jon Perr
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on Mon Jun 11, 2012 at 05:25 PM PDT
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Republicans like Rick Santorum and the "law professor"
by Cartoon Peril
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on Mon Jan 02, 2012 at 08:26 AM PST
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...at the Grand Canyon.
In October, the Obama Administration announced plans ...
by Richard Svendsen
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on Mon Dec 05, 2011 at 07:30 AM PST
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What do you think?
by flirpo
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on Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 05:36 AM PDT
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Shahram Amiri said he was kidnapped in Saudi Arabia a year ago, while on a pilgrimage, when he stepped into ...
by CIndyCasella
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on Sat Jul 17, 2010 at 06:04 AM PDT
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NOTE: This diary probably won't get much attention, because it deals with a controversy that is several years old. But it addresses an important historical scandal, and also ...
by Hudson
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on Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 08:37 AM PST
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Once upon a time (a time coincident with George W. Bush's tenure in the White House), Republicans decried the leaking of classified national security information. After the New York Times revealed ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 09:49 AM PST
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During the controversy over the Bush administration's prosecutor purge in 2007, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised ...
by Jon Perr
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on Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 11:38 AM PST
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I think we need to be careful who gets to be remembered as "Joe Wilson."
by mikel weisser
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on Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 10:18 PM PDT
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But not the Joe Wilson you are thinking of. I'm referring to Joseph C. Wilson, whose wife CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by the White House in retribution for his having outed George W. Bush's ...
by Art Smart
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on Sun Sep 13, 2009 at 02:24 PM PDT
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The Obama administration again this week moved to protect former Vice President Dick Cheney's 2004 interview with the FBI over the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. But in so doing, the ...
by Jon Perr
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on Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 09:58 AM PDT
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Remember this substance?
Lehman Brothers was founded in 1850. The firm managed to get through the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the Great Depression, and the attacks of September 11, ...
by publicv
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on Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM PDT
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I've heard of toxic assets, but this is rediculous. Lehman Brothers, the digraced Wall Street firm, has nuclear yellowcake.
by Rob Dapore
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on Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Jeffrey Klein and Paolo Pontoniere have an article up at HuffPo that is mind blowing in its exposure. They are claiming that the new fleet of helicopters commissioned and over budget for our ...
by Crabby Abbey
9 comments
on Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 01:42 PM PST
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