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Apropos of my exchange this morning with Jeremy Rabkin, Senate Republicans on Tuesday issued this letter asking President Obama to declare all national security workers to be "essential" and return them ...
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Jeremy Rabkin, a law professor at George Mason University, sent me an email in response to my post from Sunday about the shutdown and national security.
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A veteran administration official emailed me just now in response to my piece last night on congressional Republicans and the shutdown: "Nice Piece (on the shutdown)," the official writes. "You are right...
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Yesterday's Washington Post editorial discussed the pernicious effects of the shutdown on U.S. national security, and quoted John's post from last Sunday in it. The editorial opens:
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As the government lurches towards a likely shutdown on Tuesday, Tea Party Republicans should remember that the United States remains a country at war, not only in Afghanistan, but with al-Qaida and its a...
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I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t...
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Last Friday I asked how NSA Director Alexander’s claim that “we can audit the actions of our people 100%” was consistent with USG uncertainty about what Snowden stole and with its claims that it was “put...
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Eli Lake and Josh Rogin have an amazing story at the Daily Beast about how last week’s closure of embassies was prompted by a USG intercept of a conference call of “more than twenty” leaders of AQ and af...
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Yesterday, I posted posted this little piece objecting to a Daily Mail story's account of its interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Lietzau, in which it describes a "jaw-dropping U...
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I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event:
The Penta...
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The New York Times editorial page is annoyed, though not surprised, that
some politicians are trying to exploit the [embassy closure] episode by arguing that it proves the value of the National Security ...
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The Atlantic has an interesting article out about a new Pew poll showing a striking gender gap internationally in attitude towards drone strikes.
