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		<title>CIA drone killers a predictable irony.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2011/09/cia-drone-killers-a-predictable-irony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article noting a gradual but measurable increase in CIA&#8217;s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to assassinate terrorists I was struck by how ironic, predictable and asinine was the criticism by human rights groups. [Wa. Post] About 20 percent of CIA analysts are now “targeters” scanning data for individuals to recruit, arrest or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Libya, first do no harm, second look to Poland @ 1989.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2011/02/in-libya-first-do-no-harm-second-look-to-poland-1989/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even now the United States military and other Western powers are deploying ships and other assets around the Med and near Libya. But posturing aside the National Review editors advocate a different kind of military strategy &#8212; do nothing. Here&#8217;s why: We understand and share the impulse to stanch the killing. But there are two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The intelligence agency who cried &#8220;Wolf.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/the-intelligence-agency-who-cried-wolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s play &#8220;Compare &#38; Contrast.&#8221; [Washington Times] Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report. &#8220;Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four parting shots from Thiessen&#8217;s &#8220;Courting Disaster.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/four-parting-shots-from-thiessens-courting-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/four-parting-shots-from-thiessens-courting-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following excerpts are taken from Marc Thiessen&#8217;s book Courting Disaster &#8212; and relevant to the discussion post below regarding Obama Justice Department officials who worked previously defending terrorists (point #3 is huge): Others say that the lawyers at these firms are in fact following a  great American tradition, in which everyone gets a lawyer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mukasey&#8217;s high road vs. Thiessen&#8217;s &#8220;tell it like it is.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/mukaseys-high-road-vs-thiessens-tell-it-like-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting debate between two former Bush Administration officials regarding the Obama&#8217;s  attempt to hide the fact that many of the policy-makers in the Justice Department previously defended al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees in private practice. Both Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney general, and Marc Thiessen, former Bush adviser, make comparisons to the Democrats smearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Thiessen destroys NSA deputy Brennan&#8217;s OpEd.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/02/mark-thiessen-destroys-nsa-deputy-brennans-oped/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/02/mark-thiessen-destroys-nsa-deputy-brennans-oped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security John Brennan blasts critics of the Obama administration for their handling of Christmas Day bomb plotter Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, saying among other things, doing so, &#8220;only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.&#8221; So much for dissension being &#8220;the highest form of patriotism.&#8221; These same hypocrites cried foul after any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent debate on waterboarding</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/01/excellent-debate-on-waterboarding/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/01/excellent-debate-on-waterboarding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Michelle Malkin&#8217;s website I came across these clips from CNN Christine Amanpour&#8217;s show which pitted her and another high-brow opponent of waterboarding against former Bush speechwriter, author and proponent of waterboarding, Marc Thiessen. Generally, these types of things go bad for the waterboarding proponents because they don&#8217;t stick to the core logic behind laws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Club Med, Guantanamo.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/10/club-med-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/10/club-med-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Washington Post] For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed can also use that time to visit a media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama promises terrorists their beauty rest.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/obama-promises-terrorists-their-beauty-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/obama-promises-terrorists-their-beauty-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama tossed some more red meat to his constituents (at the expense of our safety): Obama Administration to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations. How stupid a decision is this? CIA Director Leon Panetta is threatening to quit. Panetta isn&#8217;t exactly a Dittohead Limbaugh listener. Among the investigations: The Washington Post reports a now retired CIA officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W.W.R.D. with Iran.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/06/w-w-r-d-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/06/w-w-r-d-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some interesting comparisons between Iran&#8217;s latest revolutionary movement and Poland&#8217;s Solidarity movement in the 1980s. Western assistance came both vocally and covert &#8212; via American companies providing Western intelligence agencies with printing presses and other equipment and utilities to assist the organization of the Polish protesters. The movement was already there and in [...]]]></description>
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