Tag: Osama bin Laden

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the news the Republicans Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott are officially the winners in the hotly contested Florida races and that Broward County elections chief Brenda Snipes is resigning after 15 years of incompetence and worse. They also shake their heads as a retired U.S. Navy admiral contends President Trump’s treatment of the media is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime and Trump responds by calling the admiral a Hillary supporter who should have killed Osama bin Laden a lot sooner. And they chronicle the staggering change in CNN commentator Kirsten Powers, who wrote a book on how the left is killing free speech but now says anyone who votes for Trump is a racist and that white women who back the president have joined forces with the patriarchy that oppresses them.

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Abbottabad Archive and the Silence of the Chattering Classes

 

Earlier this week, Mary Habeck — a military historian whom I first met some twenty-three years ago when she was an assistant professor and I, a visiting professor at Yale — came to Hillsdale to give a talk for our local Alexander Hamilton Society. Over lunch, she told me something that I did not know — which set my mind a-wandering. Just over a year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency posted online nearly all of the materials collected from Osama Bin Laden’s lair by the Navy Seals who effected his demise.

This is no small trove. There are tens of thousands of pages of material, and items in the collection spell out in detail Al Q’aeda’s dealings with the governments of Pakistan and Iran — among others.

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I meant to post this when it hit Twitter a few days ago, so forgive me if it’s old news to some. I thought that those who hadn’t seen it ought to, because it is just so exquisitely dumb. In under 140 characters, Silverman manages to make three errors of fact. Where in the world […]

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Our teachers were acting strange. Class was delayed as the adults stood out in the hall speaking in hushed tones. When she returned to the classroom, our teacher was visibly concerned. “Do any of you know what’s happened today?” A girl raised her hand. “Another plane flew into the Pentagon.” Her wording stuck with me. […]

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