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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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by Holly Morris

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The Conscience of a Liberal
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The Coming Revolution Against
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"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



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How Parental Pressure and
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by Madeline Levine


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Pat,

Excellent article, and incisive commentary on your part.

Apart from all the problems raised in the article, isn't it amazing that the BND was not able to debrief Curveball in Arabic, and that when the CIA finally sent someone, they again failed to come up with a debriefer who spoke the source's native language?

I served as a strategic debriefer with a U.S. Army intelligence unit in Munich in the 1980s (our sources came from the same camp at Zirndorf mentioned in the article) and debriefed Arabic-speaking refugees in Arabic. Why can't the BND and CIA do the same? Sheer incompetence, in my opinion.

As for the CIA's misplaced faith in Curveball, I seem to recall that the excuse has been offered, "We weren't able to polygraph him." But that's no excuse. Polygraphs are junk science, and it's worth noting that Muhammad Harith, apparently the un-named former Iraqi major referred to in the article who was also determined to be a fabricator, passed a polygraph test when he was in fact lying.

For the truth about lie detectors: AntiPolygraph.org

by George Maschke (maschke@antipolygraph.org) on Sun Nov 20th, 2005 at 02:10:25 PM EST
Does anyone else find it odd that we are hearing so little about (and from) Colin Powell?  The guy was right at the heart of the matter in the leadup to War on Iraq.  He was selling our bullshit case for war to the UN, he was on plenty of Air Force One flights, he was the Secretary of State.  And now he has nothing to say?

Either he was totally clueless and out of the loop, or he lacks the courage to come forward now and tell the world the truth.

by eagleye on Sun Nov 20th, 2005 at 02:17:58 PM EST
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I have sympathy for Colin Powell.  He was used by these people.  Of course he should have used his own brain more.  At least he seems to have some sense of shame, judging by the way that he has slunk away into the night. He is not still out there spinning new lies to the public the way the rest of them are.
by Time Waits for no Woman (time.waits_at_gmail.com) on Sun Nov 20th, 2005 at 02:23:42 PM EST
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Ha!  Don't forget that he is, and I quote a good soldier and a good American.  In fact, he is a man with no ethics and no balls.  He let them get away with the lies, and he is possibly the ONLY witness today who could stand up and tell the truth about the lies and the fact that they cooked the books... and he doesn't do it.  Why?  No balls, and he is not a great American or a good soldier as others say when they want to protect him from the truth of his mistakes.

They are all alike... no ethics, morals, and they are LIARS!

victoria2dc... blogging from Denver!

by victoria2dc on Sun Nov 20th, 2005 at 06:46:30 PM EST
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