Borders bookstore hosted this event in 2008. Its about 30 minutes. Thank you for coming. This is a hometown book for you washingtonians. Writing about spies is a tricky business. The undergoing of any spy work is full of murky doings. Making matters much worse in the case of this story was the point that these were all accounts muttled by exaggeration, misdirection, and lies, official and unofficial. That made tracking the truth a very slippery business. The history of british spies working in america. Friends spying on friends is a story a lot of people wanted to forget. Both countries wanted to suppress. So its a particularly tangled mess. In working on this book i was frequently reminded of a line of one of my favorite westerns, the man who shot valense. In the movie, they asked the newspaper editor if the truth of what happened would ever come out. He said, no, sir, this is the west when the legend becomes fact print the legend. My experience with intelligence reports, theyre the s
Also is the American Economy in a dangerous crisis . Gates, bezos and buffett have 5 50 . And our biggest economic, social and political issue. Then first mosul fell, then raqqa. What is the socalled Islamic State without a state . Is radical islam dying out . I will talk to Salman Rushdi about that and his new novel. First, heres my take. Donald trump graded his asia trip this week. Not surprisingly, he thought it was a tremendous success. Our great country is respected again in asia, he tweeted. All recent polling data from the region suggests the opposite. A core focus of trumps trip was japan and south korea, for example. Only 17 of South Koreans and 24 of japanese express confidence in him. That is down from 88 and 78 , who expressed confidence in president obama during his second term. Trumps rhetoric of self interest in America First was seen by asians as a sign of retreat in contrast to chinese president xi jinpings more open, outward looking and ambitious agenda. However, trum
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On Saturday, September 10, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a conference in the French capital to discuss “Impunity for Terrorism