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fleabiscuit

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28. I wouldn’t try to take credit for what others point out.

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 04:21 PM

Mar 2014

“...There’s a global assassination campaign going on which is pretty interesting when you look into how it’s done. I presume everyone’s read [a May 29] New York Times story, which is more or less a leak from the White House, because they are apparently proud of how the global assassination campaign works. Basically President Obama and his national security advisor, John Brennan, now head of the CIA, get together in the morning. And Brennan’s apparently a former priest. They talk about St. Augustine and his theory of just war, and then they decide who is going to be killed today….”
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-america-openly-brags-about-boom-times-its-drone-wars-while-casuallty

How could President Obama not shield President Bush and the C.I.A.?

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I wouldn’t try to take credit for what others point out. fleabiscuit Mar 2014 #28

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