Excess In Defense of Common Decency is Only Antidote To Trumpism
Wise observers of the American scene — like documentarian Ken Burns in his recent commencement address at Vanderbilt — urge…
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Stop Kvetching About Biden’s Afghan “Screw-Ups” – Kudos Are Owed
Author’s Note: I was never an eyewitness to the Afghan war. But as the CIA’s last intelligence analyst in Saigon,…
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Holding Trump Accountable for Abusing US Secrets: a Supreme Court Precedent Points the Way
The intelligence community and all sane citizens and allies of the United States are rightly freaking out about the implications…
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Putin’s Plan B For Ukraine: The Trump Primer
(Author’s Note: Just when you thought you were safe from Donald Trump, Putin’s Plan B blitzkrieg into eastern Ukraine is…
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Karma Bites
Wait a minute. Who’s the greater hypocrite? The denier-now-super-spreader-in-chief who’s just been hoisted on his own poisoned petard? Or the…
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Bolton Screwed Up – So Have The Courts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/4e5d7cac-0403-11eb… Regarding the attached Washington Post report about a judge’s decision to keep the heat on John Bolton for handing…
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Woodward’s Way: A Devil’s Bargain
The right honorable author of the groundbreaking, invaluable new book titled “Rage” exemplifies what some of us see as an…
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CIA Whistleblower On Putin’s Bounties, Trump’s Inaction
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Putin’s Bounties, Trump’s Indifference, and the Spies Who Blew the Whistle
I call it “Mutiny Over the Bounty” with apologies to the real-life Captain Bligh and his unruly crew. It is…
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Latest Covid Warning From China: Beware Public Toilets
Beijing officials have just added an important new wrinkle to government explanations for the sudden resurgence of Covid-19 in the…