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LANGLEY READ ...
NYT: "C.I.A. Drone Mission, Curtailed by Obama, Is Expanded in Africa
Under Trump," by Joe Penney, Eric Schmitt,
Rukmini Callimachi and Christoph Koettl, with a Dikkou, Niger, dateline:
"The C.I.A. is poised to conduct secret drone strikes against Qaeda and
Islamic State insurgents from a newly expanded air base deep in the Sahara,
making aggressive use of powers that were scaled back during the Obama
administration and restored by President Trump.
"Late in his
presidency, Barack Obama sought to put the militaryin
charge of drone attacks after a backlash arose over a series of highly visible
strikes, some of which killed civilians. The move was intended, in part, to
bring greater transparency to attacks that the United States often refused to
acknowledge its role in.
"But now the
C.I.A. is broadening its drone operations, moving
aircraft to northeastern Niger to hunt Islamist militants in southern Libya.
The expansion adds to the agency's limited covert missions in eastern
Afghanistan for strikes in Pakistan, and in southern Saudi Arabia for attacks
in Yemen." NYT [POLITICO Playbook, September 10, 2018]
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| JUDICIAL MATTERS |
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| EDUCATION |
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JOHN
BOLTON
National Security Advisor |
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| WHIMSEY |
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| FEDERAL WORKFORCE |
“Imagine it is 2030
and you are a U.S. government employee working from home. ... The days
when federal employees were subject to a centrally directed Office of Personnel
and Management that oversaw permanent, full-time workers sitting in downtown
office buildings are long gone."
March 25, 2018 | Darrell West on the future of
government work, The Hill
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| READ |
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| NICARAGUA |
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| GREAT BRITAIN |
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| SWITZERLAND |
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| SWEDEN |
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| LATVIA |
Pope Francis heads Saturday to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for a four-day visit that mirrors a trip Pope John Pope II took a quarter century ago. Abortionand the waning importance of the nuclear family reportedly have been big challenges for the church in the former Soviet states. And, of course, wherever Francis goes, the clergy sex abuse scandal casts its shadow. [Good Morning from CNN, September 16, 2018]
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| JORDAN |
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| ISRAEL |
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| MONGOLIA |
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| VIETNAM |
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| RUSSIA |
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| SANTA LUCIA |
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