Monatsarchive: März 2016

US drone ‚kills 150 Somali militants‘

From the BBC: Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a „large-scale“ attack was being planned. „We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African … Weiterlesen

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CIA’s Deepest Secret

For sixty years tens of thousands of clandestine service officers have gathered only the barest threads of truly important intelligence—and that is the CIA’s deepest secret. —Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 514.

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Ted Sorensen

In reading Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes I just learned that Ted Sorensen registered with his draft board as a CO just after WW II. I find this totally interesting.

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