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Gregory D. Johnsen: John Brennan is the wrong man for the CIA

From On November 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Gregory D. Johnsen, a Princeton scholar who has emerged as a key Yemen analyst, explains why promoting John O. Brennan to CIA director following David Petraeus’ resignation is counterproductive:

Mr. Brennan is the president’s chief counterterrorism adviser and the architect of this model. In a recent speech, he claimed that [...]

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The Fall of the American Empire (Writ Small)

From On November 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

History, Farce, and David Petraeus 

By Tom Engelhardt

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History, it is said, arrives first as tragedy, then as farce.  First as Karl Marx, then as the Marx Brothers.  In the case of twenty-first century America, history arrived first as George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and [...]

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David Petraeus and the Militarization of the CIA

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill injects some badly needed context into the media frenzy over David Petraeus’s CIA resignation by examining the four-star General’s legacy against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized intelligence agency:

As head of US Central Command in 2009, Petraeus issued execute orders that significantly broadened the ability [...]

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