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	<title>Swampland &#187; Massimo Calabresi &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<title>Four Non-IRS Questions for Treasury Secretary Jack Lew</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/21/four-non-irs-questions-for-treasury-secretary-jack-lew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies before the Senate Banking committee Tuesday, and is bound to spend the majority of his time answering questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of right wing political groups for heightened scrutiny. While it’s important to figure out who is responsible for the bad behavior at the IRS, and how to fix it, believe it or not there are more important questions that Senators should ask Lew, and they have nothing to do with the IRS. Like, for example, how stable is the global financial system and are Dodd-Frank measures designed to avoid another global economic collapse helping or hurting? Fortunately, that’s the very subject on which Lew has been called to testify. The Dodd-Frank regulatory behemoth known the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which comprises the principals and staff of the major federal financial regulators, issued its annual report in March and Lew’s visit to the Hill is in fact precisely for the purpose of answering questions raised by the nearly-200 page summary of the state of America’s financial health. Here are four FSOC-related questions that Lew should be asked about: 1) At the height of the financial panic in Sept. 2008, a run on the U.S. shadow banking system was halted only after the U.S. government stepped in and guaranteed all money market funds (MMFs). In 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed reforms to the funds, but in Nov. 2012, the FSOC rejected them, saying they “did not address the structural vulnerabilities of MMFs that leave them susceptible to destabilizing runs.” Is SEC moving ahead with structural reforms, and if so what are they, when will they be issued, and do they solve the problem? 2) Something like 90% of the mortgages in America are backed by the government via Fannie Mae and other former Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) that were rescued during the financial crisis. FSOC member Edward DeMarco, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority, proposed in March spinning off some of the mortgage writing business, and you have said,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96102&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew arrives on Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Scrambling To Find AP Leaker, Obama&#8217;s Administration Vindicates Bush</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/15/scrambling-to-find-ap-leaker-obamas-administration-vindicates-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After conducting 550 interviews and reviewing tens of thousands of documents, Justice Department investigators looking for the person who leaked details of a foiled al Qaeda bomb plot to the Associated Press in 2012 apparently still couldn&#8217;t make the case. So the feds faced a choice: subpoena the call records for 20 telephone lines used at work and home by AP reporters or risk failing to find the leaker. Choosing to use investigative tools Justice has resisted in the past, investigators not only went with the subpoena, they did it without notifying the AP. That decision shows three things. First, DoJ&#8217;s case against the leaker may be in trouble. Second, prosecutors are increasingly willing to intrude on media freedom. Third, George W. Bush and Barack Obama&#8216;s post-9/11 trend of limiting media oversight and expanding executive branch secrecy is continuing apace, whether Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder admit it or not. The records seizure was authorized by Deputy Attorney General James Cole because Holder recused himself from the case after the FBI interviewed him about the leaks, Holder said Tuesday. In a letter responding to protests from the AP, Cole said Tuesday that the department had issued the subpoena for the phone records as a last resort. Investigators had taken &#8220;all reasonable alternative investigative steps before even considering the issuance of a subpoena&#8221; for phone records, Cole wrote, and that the subpoena for the records was &#8220;drawn as narrowly as possible.&#8221; Taking Cole at his word, the breadth of the subpoena shows how far Justice still has to go. The subpoena covers call records, but not call contents, over the telephone lines of five reporters and one editor. That suggests investigators still don&#8217;t know who received the leak, let alone the identity of the leaker. If investigators decided not to subpoena the reporters notes before going for their phone records, it further suggests the feds don&#8217;t know where to start looking; if the feds already have subpoenaed notes, it means they haven&#8217;t found what they&#8217;re looking for. In a larger<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95652&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Obama, Perry And The True Source Of The Texas Jobs Miracle</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/10/obama-and-perry-and-the-texas-job-miracle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a fact: Texas has been a monster job creator over the past ten years, a non-stop, high-rev employment machine. Look at these charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which show steady employment growth despite massive increases in the state&#8217;s labor pool and a spike in unemployment in 2009. Now, since it is an immutable rule of politics that nothing good ever happens except thanks to humble, hardworking politicians, there has been a Texas-size dog-pile over who should get to take credit for the jobs boom. King of the Hill has been Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose truncated run for the White House in 2012 was predicated almost entirely on his job creation claims. Texas is responsible for a large percentage of the jobs created in America since the recession ended in June 2009, and while its unemployment rate has ticked up slightly in recent months to 6.4% thanks to labor market growth, it continues to generate work in everything from construction to manufacturing to financial activities to mining. It was always somewhat awkward for Perry to stake that claim, since to do so he had to argue that government policy could create jobs, specifically by funneling tens of millions of tax dollars to stimulative public investment funds. And then there was the problem that sizeable chunks of Perry’s funds seemed to have a way of benefitting his campaign contributors. But that didn&#8217;t get in the way of the general scramble to claim credit for the Texas miracle, and now President Obama has jumped in with both feet, traveling yesterday to Texas for the second time in a week to unveil some job-creation proposals that look a bit like Perry&#8217;s approach. In particular, Obama announced $200 million in funding from five different agencies for three manufacturing hubs, a proposal that would receive $1 billion under his budget that is languishing on the Hill. (MORE: Why is Texas Governor Rick Perry in Illinois?) While Obama deserves credit for a clever bit of political jiujitsu—seeing Perry’s pro-government job creation claims and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95297&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homeland Insecurity: After Boston, The Struggle Between Liberty and Security</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/01/homeland-insecurity-after-boston-the-struggle-between-liberty-and-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi and Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contest between liberty and security has been with America since its founding. It has been fought on the public stage by every President from George Washington to Barack Obama. Each generation, from those facing rebellion in the 1860s to those pushing back against government intrusions a century later, has debated where to strike a balance. But in the dark world of 21st century law enforcement, where terrorist threats can hide behind our most cherished freedoms, the battle sometimes takes place in government documents so obscure that they escape public notice. Take the case of the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. In October 2011, Obama’s Justice Department, mindful of increasing signs of homegrown terrorism, quietly granted FBI agents new powers that disturbed civil libertarians. Federal agents could now data-mine vast stores of information about individuals without making a reviewable record of their actions. They could conduct extensive physical surveillance of suspects without firm evidence of criminal or terrorist activity. They could interview people under false pretenses. They even had wider freedom to rummage through the trash of potential sources. (MORE: A Dead Militant in Dagestan: Did This Slain Jihadi Meet Tamerlan Tsarnaev?) But the new guidelines also featured added restrictions on an especially sensitive area of FBI counterterrorism work: mosques. Under the new rules, agents could no longer enter a religious organization without special new approval—in some cases directly from FBI headquarters. Moreover, according to still-classified sections of the new rules made available to Time, any plan to go undercover in a place of worship—a tactic employed by the bureau after Sept. 11, 2001, that drew protests from Muslim Americans and at least one lawsuit from a California mosque—would now need special approval from a newly established oversight body at Department of Justice headquarters called the Sensitive Operations Review Committee, or SORC. (PHOTOS: Joy and Relief in Boston After Bombing Suspect&#8217;s Arrest) On January 18, 15 months after those guidelines were issued and just a few days before Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, a young immigrant from the Russian region of Dagestan,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94641&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">TIME Magazine Cover, May 13, 2013</media:title>
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		<title>Now for Sale: Congress&#8217;s Constitutional Authority</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/26/now-for-sale-congress-constitutional-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first reaction to Congress’s FAA climbdown was that Democrats in general and the White House in particular caved. And there’s plenty of truth to that. From the start, the White House and Senate Democratic leaders have said they would not undo parts of the sequester without undoing all of it. &#8220;The President also made clear that he will not accept any measure that attempts to turn off part of the sequester,&#8221; said White House spokesman Jay Carney in November 2011. But last night, the Senate rushed through a bill by unanimous consent — without a single objection — that would authorize the FAA to spend up to $253 million of the funds Congress gave it in 2013 on keeping air-traffic controllers on the job and flights running on time. The House followed suit this morning, passing the bill with bipartisan support on a greater than 300-vote margin and in violation of the Republican majority&#8217;s policy of making all legislation available for review 72 hours before the vote. Enter the White House. “It will be good news for America’s traveling public if Congress spares them these unnecessary delays,” Carney said on Friday morning, but “we hope Congress will find the same sense of urgency and bipartisan cooperation to help the families who have had children kicked out of Head Start, the seniors who have lost access to Meals on Wheels, the hard-working employees who have been laid off due defense cuts, and the 750,000 Americans who have lost a job or won&#8217;t find one because of the sequester by acting on a balanced deficit-reduction plan like the one the President has proposed.&#8221; In other words, instead of vetoing the bill, Obama is going to “hope” that Congress will do all the things Obama previously said it had to do. So, yes, the White House caved. But in the larger picture, the sequester climbdown is just the latest in a continuing abdication of congressional power to the Executive Branch, a concession that Congress is so broken that it’s just going to let the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94195&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Lines Emerge in the Boston Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/25/battle-lines-emerge-in-the-fight-over-missed-boston-bombing-clues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things took another bad turn for the U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement community as Reuters reported yesterday that U.S. officials put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the accused instigator of the Boston Marathon bombing who was killed during the manhunt last week, on one of the U.S. databases of potential terrorists 18 months before he and his brother allegedly launched the attack. That revelation has prompted an unsurprising response from Capitol Hill. Asked if Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was responsible for not tracking Tsarnaev before the bombing, Lindsey Graham told CNN on Thursday, “I have no idea who bears the blame, I just know the system is broken. The ultimate blame I think is with the Administration.” House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, initially cautious in his response to the bombing, is growing increasingly critical of the performance of government agencies as well. At a Washington intelligence conference on Thursday, McCaul said Tsarnaev’s “departure from the U.S. would warrant a second look.” The more indications emerge that the elder Tsarnaev had come to the attention of U.S. officials before the bombing, the stronger the case becomes that law enforcement could have convinced a judge to allow the FBI to monitor him for signs he intended to do something violent. But that doesn’t mean we know for sure that the FBI or Department of Homeland Security or some other government agency dropped the ball. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, told the same conference that Americans should “not hyperventilate for a while before we get all the facts.” With regard to the handling of the Tsarnaevs by law enforcement and the intelligence community before the attack, Clapper said, “The rules were abided by, as best as I can tell at this point &#8230; the dots were connected.” Even more robust in his defense of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence was Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI terrorist hunter, who told a Brookings conference on Wednesday that those labeling the Tsarnaev case an intelligence failure have a “misunderstanding of how national-security operations work in this country.” Mudd makes a useful distinction between<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94117&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Clapper testifies at Security threat hearing on Capitol Hill  in Washington</media:title>
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		<title>Front Row Seat: Eric Draper on George W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/25/front-row-seat-eric-draper-on-george-w-bush/#ixzz2RU9WaEbP</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Knife Flight: Why TSA Shouldn&#8217;t Back Down on Small Knives</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/23/knife-flight-why-tsa-shouldnt-back-down-on-small-knives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you confused about why the Transportation Security Administration was planning on allowing small knives on planes starting this Thursday, but still won’t let you bring large bottles of liquids on board? Don’t be. It’s simple. Liquids can be used to make an explosion and bring down an airplane; knives can’t. But on Monday the beleaguered head of the TSA, John Pistole, temporarily backed down from his decision last month to allow small knives on board, saying he would reassess the move after he hears from a committee of passenger representatives, flight attendants and law enforcement officials. Pistole has been on the hot seat since the announcement, under attack from politicians, flight attendants and others. But he still stands by it. “His thinking was and remains that the focus of TSA should be on threats that present the greatest risks to air travelers,” says TSA spokesman David Castelveter, “And those risks are explosive devices. It’s not his belief, nor that of the Intelligence community, that a pen knife would contribute to bringing down an aircraft.” Think about the post-9/11 measures that have been implemented to diminish the danger from small knives: cockpit doors have been locked and hardened; air marshals ride random flights incognito; pilots carry handguns; and flight attendants have gone through self-defense training. Even if a terrorist could get to the cockpit and take over the controls using a folding, non-locking knife with a blade that is less than 6 centimeters long and ½ inch wide, there is no way passengers would sit by and let him fly the plane into a building. Much of the resistance to the new rule has come from those who worry that a small knife might be used to hurt a passenger or flight attendant. In testimony, Pistole has pointed out that a broken glass, the heel of a shoe or the fork from a business class meal can do as much damage as a small folding knife. Why let the knives on at all? The main reason is to bring U.S.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93807&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the FBI, White House Will Face Hard Questions About Their Boston Bombing Interviews</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/20/why-the-fbi-white-house-will-face-hard-questions-about-their-boston-bombing-interviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI and the Obama Administration will face hard questions in coming days over interviews with the alleged perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings, one with the surviving suspect now in custody and another with his now deceased older brother that took place two years ago. After a four-day manhunt that ended with the death overnight Thursday of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture Friday night of his younger brother Dzhokhar, Boston&#8217;s relief had not even dissipated before Washington&#8217;s debates kicked in. &#8220;We remain under threat from radical Islam and we hope the Obama Administration will seriously consider the enemy-combatant option,&#8221; said GOP Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, referring to their preference that Dzhokhar, an American citizen, not be read Miranda rights or given the right to counsel. The Administration has preferred to try terror suspects in civilian, Article 3 courts and abide by their rules, especially when dealing with American citizens. Obama suggested the Justice Department and the FBI would have the lead, rather than the military, in detaining, interrogating and trying Dzhokhar. &#8220;It&#8217;s important that we do this right,&#8221; Obama said in a statement released late Friday. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we have investigations. That&#8217;s why we relentlessly gather facts. That&#8217;s why we have courts,&#8221; Obama said. (PHOTOS: Joy and Relief in Boston After Bombing Suspect&#8217;s Arrest) In fact, the FBI doesn&#8217;t immediately need to read Dzhokhar his Miranda rights. Under the &#8220;public-safety&#8221; exception, cops can interrogate a suspect about imminent threats for some time before reading them their rights. One recent precedent came with the arrest of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber, who was interrogated for several hours without being read his rights. Also, Democrats will no doubt remind their GOP critics that British citizen Richard Reid, the &#8220;shoe bomber,&#8221; was tried in Article 3 courts by the Bush Administration. The bigger problem for the administration comes not from the current interviews with Dzhokhar, but with the interviews conducted two years ago with his now deceased brother, Tamerlan. Since he was identified as a suspect Thursday, there<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93544&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bureau Vs. the Boston Bomber</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/18/the-bureau-vs-the-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contest between law enforcement and the bomber who killed three and wounded more than 175 at the Boston Marathon on Monday is taking place in a very different arena from past investigations. Where the Unabomber used the deep woods and isolation to hide, the Boston bomber is using the anonymity of crowds and the open-source knowledge of the Internet in his attempt to elude justice. But over the past few years, the cops have learned to fight on that field too. By all accounts, the FBI started cold on the case, meaning they had no prior information of the bomb plot to guide them as they began the hunt. From the start, the feds pursued traditional modes of investigation to begin generating the evidence for an eventual conviction of the murderer. They sealed the bomb site within minutes of the blast and soon enough found the telltale pieces of a pressure-cooker bomb of the kind favored by Islamic extremists and admired by right-wing militias. At first, the bomber seemed to have the advantage. He had chosen a crowded public event as his target, making it hard for potential witnesses to differentiate him from thousands of innocent bystanders and increasing the likelihood that evidence might have been destroyed in the mayhem after the explosion. And he had used a crude but effective bomb design that is widely available on the Web, and the parts to which can be bought at major retail stores or at hardware stores. But the cops have new tools to fight back against this approach, some of them the product of technological advances, others given to them by law after 9/11. Pressure-cooker bombs are sometimes detonated remotely by cell phone. If the bomber used that method, the FBI will have access to all calls made at or around the time of the explosions, thanks to detailed records of traffic through local cell towers that are routinely kept by carriers and are made available to law enforcement often without a court order (though in this case a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93341&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard DesLauriers: The Special Agent in Charge</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/17/richard-deslauriers-the-special-agent-in-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 9, 2010, FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers disembarked from a chartered Vision Airlines jet on the tarmac of Vienna’s Schwechat International Airport, accompanied by 10 Russian sleeper agents and their families. Nearby, four Russian prisoners got off a plane that had just landed from Moscow. The two groups headed toward each other under the baking Central European summer sun for a rare and unusually large exchange of captured spies. It was the culmination of what a former senior Justice Department official calls “one of the most complicated and impressive counterintelligence operations” in recent U.S. history. Less than three years later, DesLauriers is facing a very different challenge. As special agent in charge of the FBI office in Boston, DesLauriers, 53, is running the Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks, the first successful terrorist bombings on U.S. soil since 9/11. The bombing is a different kind of case from the one DesLauriers spent his career investigating: a 25-year veteran of counterintelligence, he made his bones running operations against foreign spies, not tracking down and busting terrorists. For DesLauriers and the FBI, the Boston Marathon bombing is a high-visibility test. Former and current colleagues at the FBI and Justice Department say DesLauriers and the FBI are up to the task, and they say the roll-up and exchange of the Russian spies, dubbed Operation Ghost Stories, shows it. After 9/11 the FBI was criticized for failing to coordinate with other agencies and for being stuck in a Cold War–era mind-set. In the roll-up of Ghost Stories the FBI pulled off a politically and diplomatically delicate operation that involved coordination with multiple intelligence agencies, U.S. attorney&#8217;s offices and local field agents. “Rick is the real deal,” says David Kris, former assistant attorney general for National Security during the Russian roll-up, “He’s very, very good, extremely methodical and organized.” On paper, DesLauriers looks like a classic FBI special agent. He grew up in Longmeadow, Mass., went to Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., and then got a J.D. at Catholic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93144&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunt for the Marathon Bomber</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/16/the-hunt-for-the-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hunt for the killer behind Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings began within minutes of the attacks. Even as local first responders brought the last of the wounded away (at least three were killed, and 140 injured), evidence recovery teams working under the auspices of the Joint Terrorism Task Force of Boston moved in to seal off the bomb sites from contamination and begin the work of picking through the wreckage for pieces of the explosive devices. In Washington, the FBI and CIA began scouring their intelligence databases for missed clues that the attacks had been imminent. And national signals intelligence assets had “ears up” for any congratulatory chatter by terrorist organizations thought to be planning attacks against the U.S. Which doesn’t mean the case will be solved quickly. By Monday evening, there was still no claim of responsibility for the attacks, and no indication of a culprit. Even when a suspect does emerge, figuring out whether he had accomplices and who the prime mover was will be an ongoing investigation for local, state and federal authorities. According to the Boston police commissioner, Edward Davis, there had been “no specific intelligence that anything was going to happen” at the marathon. A senior FBI official tells TIME the bureau is starting cold on the case. Former senior Justice department officials agree. “They are starting with the facts of the event,” says Todd Hinnen, former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security. The investigation is beginning at the scene of the attack. Blast sites look like chaos: debris and blood and shards of glass. But to forensic experts they are fields of evidence waiting to be collected. Amid the starburst of wreckage, FBI experts can find the spring from a timing mechanism or the signature chemical residue of a particular explosive that caused the blast. In Oklahoma City, the vehicle identification number of the truck used in the 1995 bombing was found on its rear axle amid the debris. In Lockerbie, Scotland, investigators found pieces of a cassette player that had contained plastic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92985&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Reform: The Coming Fight Over The Low-Skilled Worker Visa</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/08/immigration-reform-the-coming-fight-over-the-low-skilled-worker-visa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the heart of a soon-to-be-released bipartisan compromise on immigration reform is a controversial proposal that would create several new government bureaus and offices to oversee a new generation of legal, low-skilled immigrants—as many as 200,000 a year when the program gets up and running. The proposal tries to address the ultimate cause of illegal immigration: not merely porous borders or unscrupulous employers, but the immutable fact that jobs here pay better here than ones back there. When Washington has tried to end illegal immigration in the past, Congress has ignored that simple labor market reality. This time, surprisingly, instead of trying to stop the illegal flow of low-skilled foreign workers to unfilled American jobs by increasing penalties and enforcement, the bipartisan bloc of Senators proposes to legalize it, in part. Under the terms of a deal struck between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Gang of Eight over Easter weekend, the bill would create a new, low-skilled worker visa: the &#8220;W-visa&#8221;. After listing a low-skilled job and receiving no acceptable American applicants, an employer could register to recruit a foreign worker. Entering the country for one job, a W-visa holder could legally change jobs immediately. Their initial employer could turn around and hire another W-visa holder the next day. What if a low-skilled worker decides he or she wants to stay? Holders of the W-visa could get on a path for citizenship after one year. Some immigration experts and economists view the bill as a historic breakthrough. “It’s thoughtful and innovative,” says Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA., a pro-business immigration group. “Supply and demand is going to generate a flow of [foreign low-skilled] workers,” says Jacoby, &#8220;It’s our choice whether we want them to come here legally or illegally.” But even if the policy is right that doesn&#8217;t mean the politics are, and the W-visa already seems to have as many enemies as friends, even among the groups that negotiated it. On the left, some unions are unhappy with the proposal because unemployment is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92267&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Ready To Deal On Gun Control?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/04/democrats-ready-to-deal-on-gun-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and the advocates for increased federal gun control are coming to the end of their big Easter recess effort to build support for a tougher background check bill, and the results don’t look promising. Obama returned Thursday from a Western trip that included a stop in Colorado, where he reminded listeners of the Aurora and Columbine killings. Obama applauded Colorado’s recent gun control legislation, which he said showed “that practical progress is possible by enacting tougher background checks that won’t infringe on the rights of responsible gun owners.” On Monday, he heads to Connecticut where he will make his closing arguments. But Democratic sources tell TIME that the tough background check bill that emerged from the Judiciary Committee March 12, doesn’t appear to have the votes to overcome a filibuster when it comes to the Senate floor in the next week or two, let alone get through the Republican controlled House. The push by Obama and his allies, including a $12 million ad buy by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, appears only to have highlighted the fact that any bill that includes paper records for all private sales can’t pass Congress. Perhaps the greatest sign that the push for tougher legislation has failed is that Democrats are quietly preparing a fall back position. Behind the scenes staffers for Republican Senator Tom Coburn and Democrat Charles Schumer are drafting a substitute background check bill that would be softer, but could get broad Republican support. “Lines of communication remain open and both sides are working in good faith to come to an agreement,” says one source close to the deal. The substitute bill is not yet done—the sticking point remains whether there will be a requirement for paper records of background checks on private sales at gun shows or elsewhere. Coburn says Republicans won&#8217;t accept any expansion of record keeping to private sales, even though paper records are required for guns sold by licensed dealers. Gun control advocates say that not including a paper record of a private gun sale<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92169&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">President Obama calls for measures to reduce gun violence.</media:title>
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		<title>Behind Bloomberg&#8217;s Gun-Buyer Background-Check Ad Blitz</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/29/behind-bloombergs-gun-buyer-background-check-ad-blitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rich people do crazy things with their money, but no one’s ever accused billionaire New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg of being the kind to throw money away on a lost cause. So some observers are confused by his $12 million ad buy during Congress’s Easter recess. Bloomberg’s ads push for the expansion of legally required background checks to include private sales, a move that close to 90% of Americans support, including 74% of NRA members, according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Bloomberg’s not the only one pushing the issue this week. Backed by the mothers of victims of gun violence, an impassioned President Obama held an event at the White House on Thursday morning touting his multifaceted gun-control package and singling out the background-check issue in particular. “Ninety percent of Americans — 90% — support background checks,” Obama said. “How often do 90% of Americans agree on anything?” Groups allied with Bloomberg, like Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions, are also launching a background-check blitz. (MORE: Universal Background Checks Shine Spotlight on Gun Stores) So why make a big push to influence public opinion when public opinion’s already on your side? The answer lies in the stalled negotiations between Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Tom Coburn over gun legislation in Congress. How that standoff is resolved will determine whether the latest gun-control effort, launched in the wake of December’s killing of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, Conn., goes anywhere. Federal law already requires commercial gun sellers to run a background check on a gun buyer before the sale of a weapon, and to keep a paper record of the sale. But sellers at gun shows and in private sales don’t have to do either. While increased background checks are popular, Coburn and the NRA say there is less support for expanding paper records, which gun-rights advocates warn could be used to create a national database of gun ownership that might allow the government to confiscate firearms. Gun-control groups, and Schumer, say any bill without the paper records would<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91601&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Bush Got Right on Iraq &#8212; and What Obama Can Learn from It</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/20/what-bush-got-right-on-iraq-and-what-obama-can-learn-from-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was updated with Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s response at 10:50 am When George W. Bush became President in January 2001, American policy towards Iraq was in free fall and the United Nations sanctions against Saddam’s regime, in place since the first Gulf War, were in tatters. By early 2003, Bush had achieved something most analysts had thought impossible: sanctions on Iraq were tighter than ever and inspectors were back in the country. Most surprising, Saddam Hussein had reportedly offered to go into exile, as long as he could take $1 billion with him. And then Bush threw that diplomatic progress aside and committed the U.S. to a war that would cost thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi ones, and more than $700 billion in American treasure. If you factor in veterans care and other costs, the price runs to the trillions. As President Obama heads down his own path to war over Iran’s nuclear program, it’s worth reviewing not only what Bush did wrong as he confronted Iraq ten years ago&#8211;but what he did right. (MORE: Saddam Hussein Would Have Survived the Arab Spring) In Jan. 2001 the collapse of the Iraq sanctions regime was obvious. Passed in the wake of the Gulf War, the sanctions were intended to enforce provisions of Iraq’s 1991 surrender requiring the destruction of all of its chemical and biological weapons and prohibiting its pursuit of a nuclear program. All Iraqi oil sales were to be controlled by the U.N. But throughout the Clinton administration, Saddam violated the surrender terms and the U.N. sanctions regime. In Oct. 1998 he permanently kicked out U.N. inspectors. By November 2000, Syria had opened an unauthorized pipeline from Iraq. Oil and refined petroleum were flowing across the Turkish border in long convoys of tanker trucks. International flights, also banned under the sanctions, were starting up again. “The U.S. position is deteriorating by the day,” Ken Katzman, the long-time Middle East analyst for the Congressional Research Service, told TIME late in 2000. By Jan. 22, 2003, things could hardly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90840&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Uneasy on Iran Ahead of Obama&#8217;s Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote on Obama&#8217;s first-term progression on Iran, from engagement to saber rattling, as a walk-up to what will be a consequential year of diplomacy between Washington, Jerusalem and Tehran. Today the Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib takes a closer look at what&#8217;s coming, with a particular eye to Obama&#8217;s Israel trip next week. At negotiations in Kazakhstan between Iran, the U.S. and other world powers last month, the U.S. offered to ease sanctions slightly and let Iran keep less than a bomb&#8217;s worth of highly enriched uranium for research purposes in exchange for freezing it&#8217;s enrichment operations at a hard-to-bomb facility at Fordo, and other confidence-building measures. That offer, reports Seib, left Israel uneasy: Israel, however, isn&#8217;t confident. It sees the latest proposal as a rollback from the world&#8217;s earlier and tougher positions, which called for shipping out of Iran almost all of its stockpile of even less-well-enriched uranium, and the shutdown rather than merely the suspension of production at the Fordo enrichment facility. More talks are scheduled for later this month and for April. Watch for signs of friction over Iran when Obama is in Israel next week.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90265&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Gun Control Ends: Not With A Bang, But A Whimper</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/11/how-gun-control-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a hard truth: all the emotion and outrage and sadness that followed the Dec. 14 shooting of 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook elementary school may make almost no difference in federal gun control laws. How little is the Hill going to do on gun control? As things stand, Congress may not even pass two gun control measures that even some elements of the powerful gun lobby have suggested they could support. But if post-Sandy Hook gun control measures are badly wounded, they’re not finished yet. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle insist there’s still a chance to do a deal; here’s the state of play. After months of negotiation, four bills came to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, reflecting President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s agenda for post-Sandy Hook action. The first makes straw purchasing and gun trafficking a felony and boosts the penalties for those crimes. Another would expand background checks to include private sales at gun shows and elsewhere. A third would boost spending on school safety programs. And lastly there’s a push to ban assault weapons and large ammunition magazines. (MORE: The Next Gun Control Battle: A Right To Carry Firearms in Public?) The gun trafficking measure passed out of committee last week with the backing of Democrats and one Republican, the ranking minority member Chuck Grassley. It is likely to pass the full Senate next week and should eventually pass the House and become law. But it has less to do with Sandy Hook than with Fast and Furious. Over the last two years Republicans alleged that the White House and Justice Department conspired in a botched gun running investigation in Arizona called Fast and Furious. It was a whacky theory and was debunked by a widely praised Inspector General’s report. But it’s now hard for Republicans to oppose a bill that makes gun running a felony and boosts penalties for the crime after they made such a big deal of the case. The most extreme Fast and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90095&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bin Laden&#8217;s Son-In-Law is in New York City, Not Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/08/why-bin-ladens-son-in-law-is-in-new-york-city-not-gitmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arrest and detention of Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, has reopened the question of whether top al Qaeda figures captured by the U.S. should be tried in civilian courts or in military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. By law, Abu Ghaith should have been transferred to military detention under the provisions of the Fiscal Year 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires all members of al Qaeda or associated forces to be taken into military custody at least temporarily. But the NDAA provides a wide carve out for the commander-in-chief’s discretion in war time. And the President is authorized to waive the requirement entirely if he certifies to Congress that end-running the law is in the national security interests of the United States. Several senior administration officials tell TIME Obama exercised the waiver in Abu Ghaith’s case after consulting his top aides, opting to send Ghaith to trial in the Southern District of New York rather than to Gitmo. “The President’s national security team – including the Defense Department and members of the Intelligence Community, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the Department of Justice – unanimously agreed that prosecution of Ghaith in federal court will best protect the national security interests of the United States,” one senior official said. Congressional leadership was informed of the decision, the administration officials say. Why did the administration choose civilian courts? “The Administration is seeking to close Guantanamo, not add to its population,” says one administration official. Says another, “There was no reason to try him anywhere but an Article III Court. That’s the best and most efficient way to bring him to justice, and that’s why there was unanimity in the government on that point.” The history of civilian vs. military trials for al Qaeda figures has been politically difficult for the administration. In late 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. would transfer the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad to the Southern District of New York for trial. After months of political pushback<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90002&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White House Poaches State Staffers</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/white-house-poaches-state-staffers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the first months of the Obama presidency, it was clear the Obama White House wanted tight control over the administration&#8217;s foreign and national security policy. Just a few months into his second term, some key staffers have moved the mile between State and the White House, making it look as if Obama will be even more hands-on in his second term. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Russia and China, a close circle of advisers dominated big decisions in the first term. Whether it was early reversals like retreating from the promise to close Guantanamo, to recent decisions like releasing details of the administration drone policy, chief of staff Denis McDonough, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Vice President Joe Biden tended to be the last players in the room before Obama made key decisions. That inner circle still rules. A recent article in Foreign Policy by Vali Nasr, a former aide to Af/Pak czar Richard Holbrooke , looks backwards at the isolation of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s State Department. Sunday&#8217;s New York Times looks forward to the resurgent role Biden is set to play in Obama&#8217;s second term. As John Kerry starts his job as Obama&#8217;s second choice for Secretary of State, the former Massachusetts Senator has an even more immediate indicator of the challenge he will face in trying to influence the President: Kerry&#8217;s losing two heavy hitters to his competitors in the vice president&#8217;s office and the National Security Council. After Biden&#8217;s national security adviser and long time aide, Anthony Blinken, moved over to become Donilon&#8217;s deputy at the NSC last month, Biden poached Hillary Clinton&#8217;s deputy chief of staff and policy planning director, Jake Sullivan, to replace Blinken. Sullivan was the reliable point of contact between the White House and Clinton&#8217;s 7th floor even when other White House and State staffers were at each others&#8217; throats. Losing him to Biden&#8217;s office closes one line of influence to the White House for Kerry. That announcement was followed by word that Phil Gordon, Clinton&#8217;s assistant secretary of State for Europe,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89588&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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