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Spies, Journalists and the Literature of Witness
January 12, 2021
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by Clarissa Ward / Penguin Press
Reviewed by Marc Polymeropoulos
Cipher Brief Expert Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the Middle East, Europe, Eurasia and CounterTerrorism.
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stranger to controversy, but his latest move has jewish leaders outraged. we will try to get an ex-explanation in our faces of faith segment. are you ready for the party? these people don t even care who is playing in the super bowl. we start with the nevada caucuses, it was the first western contest of the republican presidential race. here are the results so far cnn has projected mitt romney as the winner, newt gingrich, ron paul pretty close to each other in second and third, rick santorum in fourth. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in las vegas, bright and early this morning. not so bright yet. paul it was a good night for mitt romney, right? reporter: it sure was. susan it s 5:00 in the morning right now and the lights are pretty bright here in vegas and for mitt romney his odds of winning the republican nomination are getting brighter by the day. romney! romney! romney! romney! reporter: mitt romney does what no other republican presidential can
core conservatives learn to love mitt? you, the economy and the election with alex riff lin, douglas holt aiken and ron brownstein. and then israel, iran and the u.s., what we know with house intelligence chairman mike rogers. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a gallup poll shows president obama beating every republican comer except one, mitt romney. after months of pounding by republican rivals and the president s team romney is up a point over the president, a dead heat. 35% of republicans are extremely enthusiastic to vote this year, compared to 23% of democrats, 20% of independents. that s called an enthusiasm gap. also troublesome for the president s prospects, four of the 12 swing states have jobless rates over 9%, and four are in the top ten for highest foreclosure rates. joining us now, bob mcdonnell, head of the republican governors association, and his counterpart at the democratic governors association martin o malley. gentlemen thank you bot
it is singapore and its prime minister, you ll want to hear what he has to say. also, i ll explain why we should stop worrying so much about the stumbling revolutions in tunisia, and around the arab world. here s my take, first. now that mitt romney is once again the frontrunner, his campaign focus is returning to president obama. he will probably repeat a line that he has used often in the past. this is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is a post-american century. now, i leave it to the president to describe what he believes, but as the author of the book the post american world, i would like to clarify the phrase. at the very beginning of the book, i note, this is a book not about the decline of america, but rather about the rise of everyone else. throughout the book i m optimistic, and i think we can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet. i argue that the age of america s singular dominance, its uni-po
after a particular pair of tennis shoes. what would you go this crazy for? we want to hear from you this morning. also reynolds wolf is here. he ll be along wait a minute, that car is going the wrong direction. the white one is going downhill, the black one uphill. there will be some nasty moments for some of you traveling during the holiday season. we do not recommend that on this cnn saturday morning. all right. well, when the folks in virginia go to the polls this march to vote for a republican candidate they will not see these two names newt gingrich or rick perry. both of them have now failed to come up with enough valid signatures to qualify. let me bring in our athena jones on the line with me now. how could this happen? reporter: well, as the republican party from virginia has said, after verification, the virginia republican party has determined that newt gingrich did not submit the required 10,000 signatures, and does not qualify for the virginia primary