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    Seems to me the whole controversy about Snowden rather misses the point. For all we know he was an unwitting…
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    • I put a fair effort into numerous comments in your now deleted diary, I will not be making that mistake…
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    • They are awash in data; and mistakes will inevitably be made. But you can't say we weren't warned; the now-unfunded…
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    • And with no hint of irony. Seems privacy is an anachronism of the analogue age.
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    • Sorry, I should have said "executive agreements."
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    • The President can keep a treaty with a foreign power secret.
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    • Arthur, is that we are walking straight into this with our eyes wide open (emphasis alarmingly added:) "The value of…
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    • Read a piece in the New Yorker recently which gave me the shivers, it sounded like we've already had our…
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    • Don't see how we back away slowly from this; if the CIA was illegally opening US mail from 1952 what…
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    • If two minutes of combative oratory demolishing ten years of careful political calculation counts as stupid then hard to go…
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    • The thing about the JFK assassination is that it seems entirely plausible that Oswald was intentionally 'sheep-dipped' by a conspiratorial…
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    • Islam is nothing more than a Christian heresy. Does that make Christianity nothing more than a Judaic heresy? To me…
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    • The 'external threat' card is played: Turkish intelligence is looking into possible links between the incidents in Taksim Square and…
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    • That Perry Anderson link is brilliant; though I think the Cypriot resistance owes more to the 20th century Balkan Wars…
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    • I failed to link to this further analysis of the Erdoğan-Gülen rift in the comment above: In a smart recent…
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    • A bit. I am having trouble sorting it out myself and the Kurdish link you provided is also helpful, if…
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    • A bit surprised at you, Alexander, that you haven't pursued the Ergenekon case so far as to identify the involvement…
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    • ...a broad war has broken out between Sunnis and Shiites. How is this not amoral but otherwise manageable US policy…
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    • The Dixie Mission to Mao's China in 1944. That was a momentous missed opportunity that destroyed the careers of those…
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    • Well, yes... Who then harried them through a ring-cycle of their collective worst nightmares before dangling them collectively from meat-hooks…
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