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Hello! You’ve been targeted for a U.S. drone assassination!

by Jed Lewison on Mar 16, 2012 • No Comments

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Heart & Mind-O-Matic

by Jed Lewison on Feb 9, 2012 • No Comments

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Mark Fiore – "Legal-Easy"

by Jed Lewison on Jan 12, 2012 • No Comments

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Obama administration’s proposed cuts in Pentagon spending welcome, but only a small first step

by Jed Lewison on Jan 8, 2012 • No Comments

President Barack Obama, with Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta after unveiling his defense strategy at the Pentagon Jan. 5 (Reuters/Jason Reed) Anyone who has lived through all the drama before knows to r...

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Indefinite detention: Can we ask how the United States got here?

by Jed Lewison on Jan 8, 2012 • No Comments

Bipartisan BFFs in enabling indefinite detention: Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin. (Office of Senator Patrick Leahy/Wikicommons) There has certainly been a lot of sturm und drang surrounding the indefinite detention provisions codified into law in t...

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Pentagon’s inspector general deserves a yellow stripe for okaying shillery by retired officers

by Jed Lewison on Dec 28, 2011 • No Comments

Donald Rumsfeld (DonkeyHotey) Bruce Ackerman writes: This is a time of good cheer at the Pentagon—its watchdog, the inspector general, has just ruled that its Bush-era campaign to manipulate the media was entirely acceptable under Defense Departmen...

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