Daily Archives: May 23, 2016

“You know, Mr. Speaker, you and I have a lot in common,” Kean said. “You were a high school history teacher?” “Yes,” Hastert replied. “And so was I,” Kean said, reminiscing about his two-year stint as a teacher at St. … Continue reading →

It occurred to Kean that this might be the commission’s most frightening discovery of all: The emperors of espionage had no clothes. Perhaps the reason the White House had fought so hard to block the commission’s access to the PDBs … Continue reading →

Der Spiegel has an interesting article on Günther Rüdel’s grandson and one’s civic responsibility in a criminal state.

The Council on Foreign Relations: Mansur’s potential death provides a real-world, real-time ability to test two hypotheses about the policy of killing terrorist leaders. These are based upon the objectives of the strike, according to the Pentagon press release, as … Continue reading →