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CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange Thanks to Russia (and thanks to WikiLeaks), Snowden remains free. —JULIAN ASSANGE, Newsweek, 2015 ULIAN ASSANGE had made a brilliant career of trafficking in state, military, and corporate secrets. Born on July 3, 1971, in Queensland, Australia, Assan...

…id Nadani Decl. 12 at Notice of HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud’s Mo- tion to Dismiss Certain Consolidated Com- plaints Ex. 1 (hereinafter “Nadani Decl.”’); Consolidated Jeffress Decl. 14; Federal Complaint 1427; Sultan Bio. As such, he is the third-highest ranking member...

…ubversion, and the imperative to sustain openness while addressing the unfairness of contending on a series of uneven playing fields. Achieving this balance requires that we differentiate constructive from harmful forms of interaction and carefully gauge the challenge, lest we...

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Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes Clapper,” Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. 119 “We actually buy cell phones”: Snowden quoted in “New The Guardian Inter- view with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014, htt...

…othing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and...

sometime were. It called for mental application, an ability to assess risks, to find answers under enormous pressure when, inevitably, things went wrong. It required not just brawn, but brains. A week before I began my final year at Hebrew University, I went to see Eli Zeira, th...

In his new book, Bob Woodward writes about Colin Powell’ s status as an adviser to you. Referring to his previous book, Plan of Attack, the New York Times then reported that “Secretary of State Colin Powell disputed Woodward’ s account....He said that he had an excellent relation...

… most sobering, if not depressing, problems of international politics: The “security dilemma”. The world is a dangerous place. So countries do things to feel safer. Their populations demand it. Germany looks at Britain’s imperial navy in the 1890s: London could snap Berlin’s trad...

the lead-up to Iraq's invasion in 1990. When faced with a build-up of Iraqi forces along its border, Kuwait decided not to mobilize its military out of fear that the move would provoke Saddam Hussein. The incentives for Gulf states to make similar strategic calculations in the fu...

to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...

…t implemented, as well as to a release of Palestinian prisoners agreed at Wye. Yet then came the more difficult part: explaining my view of how we could best move toward a full peace agreement. I said I was convinced the prospects would be much better if we delayed the redeployme...

…o present military operations for approval. I remember one occasion when an air force general laid out the details of a planned helicopter-borne mission into Lebanon. I added a few remarks in summary. Raful Eitan and Arik Sharon were both ministers. Within seconds, they were pepp...

…has called for early action on that issue as well. On October 22, Trump outlined a voter contract for hisfirst 100 days plan that calls for enactment of: » The Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act (comprehensive tax reform); » The End the Offshoring Act, to establish...

…an airlines. So too, targeting of American institutions/events — it is unlikely a coincidence that an American band was playing at the site of the largest causalities in Paris -- seems highly probable. This applies equally to American bases and facilities overseas, including emba...