WHAT WE OWE IRAQ: C-SPAN AIRING NOAH FELDMAN REMARKS

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Many of you wanted to know if C-Span Book TV was covering Noah Feldman‘s recent remarks at the New America Foundation. Today at 5:45 p.m. EST (and probably repeatedly over the next several days). Noah Feldman will be speaking about his new book, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building.

“FUCK YEAH AMERICANS” BACKLASH?

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A friend just forwarded me the lyrics to a Steve Earle song, called “Rich Man’s War.” The question my friend poses is whether there is a backlash brewing in Red States. I’m not sure, but this song sounds like it’s tapped into a genuine Jacksonian, Fuck-Yeah American current.

ISRAEL’S MOSSAD HAS ITS OWN PUTSCH UNDERWAY

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This just in from UPI’s Intelligence Watch, authored by John C.K. Daly and Martin Sieff: Turmoil rocks politicized Mossad The CIA is not the only major intelligence agency rocked by resignations of senior veteran officials and charges of politicization.

DEMS NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF KNEE-JERK CIA-HUGGING

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ON THE ONGOING CONVULSIONS AT THE CIA, Douglas Jehl writes: Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to “support the administration and its policies in our work,” a copy of an internal memorandum shows.

THE CIA PUTSCH: SOMEONE CALL GEORGE SMILEY

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THIS CIA STUFF REALLY DOES MATTER. Intelligence is by definition a complicated business, but applying a political litmus test to those engaged in intelligence estimates and operations is extremely dangerous for the country.