Understatement of the Day

— By Mother Jones

| Tue Jul. 24, 2007 8:15 AM PDT

From Daniel Benjamin (Brookings Institution) and Steve Simon (Council on Foreign Relations) in their op-ed in today's New York Times, which suggests that we use the CIA to root out Al Qaida in Pakistan:

While the C.I.A. doesn't have an unblemished record...

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— Nick Baumann

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Submitted by chalmers johnson (not verified) on Tue Jul. 24, 2007 10:38 PM PDT.

looks like those two assklowns need to read this book. lol

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174824/chalmers_johnson_agency_of_rogues

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038551445X/nationbooks08

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