We all know the situation in Dallas, and here is another in Tennessee: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the name of the suspect behind Thursday morning’s random shooting in Bristol, TN that claimed the life of an area newspaper carrier and injured three others, including a local police officer. The TBI says 37-year-old …
War on Terror
The Battle for Fallujah (Has Once Again) Begun!
* Earlier today, which is already tomorrow in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi announced that Iraqi Forces (regular Iraqi Army and [most likely the National] Police, as well as irregular forces from the sectarian and tribal militias) had begun their operations to retake Fallujah. From the Iraqi perspective, specifically the Iraqi leadership’s perspective, …
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They Are Who We Thought They Were, Part Deux
The CIA really, really doesn’t want us to know just how badly it can f**k up: The CIA inspector general’s office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Highly Suspicious
(whispers to flight attendant): "I don't want to upset anyone, but I think the man in 15C is modeling credit default swaps". — matt blaze (@mattblaze) May 7, 2016 Catherine Rampell, at the Washington Post, salutes this week’s True Amurkin Terrorized, massively delaying her flight for gut-wrenching fear of… MATH: … On Thursday evening, a …
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Open Thread: Snowden and the Unasked Questions
I wouldn't have thought of casting Zachary Quinto to play @ggreenwald, but it looks like a good choice. https://t.co/U5mhE5zf7X — Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) April 27, 2016 There’s a sub-branch of linguistics where the experts search for the words that don’t exist in a particular language — sometimes because certain subjects are considered too dangerous to …
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About That Libya Thing
Remember this: So, no. Libya is not Iraq, or Afghanistan, or any other country. Libya is Libya, and while I hope Gaddafi is gone and everything works out, I still do not think we should have been involved. I don’t care if you disagree, but I think I have some good reasons why we should …
Speaking of Children Killed With No Accountability
Every time we drop a bomb or launch a drone strike to achieve our big win in the war on terror du jour, we create more terrorists and lose our way as a nation just a bit more: A group of Pakistani artists are hoping to generate “empathy” among US drone operators by placing giant …
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