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Michael-Scheuer

The Pro-Trump CIA Man: QAnon Madness and Upward Failure

Michael Scheuer is a pure product of the CIA. A career operations officer, he ran the first agency task force that hunted Osama bin Laden. He authored the agency’s rendition program, which kidnapped suspected terrorists (and sometimes innocent people) and tortured them. He combined a deep knowledge of Islamic jihadist movements with a willingness to...

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Peace Park Hiroshima

U.S. Generals and Conservatives Opposed Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

With the approaching 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I reached for my grandfather’s memoirs, For the Record.  In August 1945, Felix Morley was the former editor of the Washington Post who had founded a publication called Human Events, a journal of conservative and libertarian thought.  He recalled that the end of World...