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Afro-Leninism, Polygraphing Michael
Leeden and State Secrets Privilege History Commons
Update
History Commons Projects, Update on December 24,
2008
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The Domestic Propaganda project cataloged several more of the attempts by
conservative talk radio hosts to draw voters away from Barack Obama during the
election campaign. In the process, Obama was labeled an Afro-Leninist and a
Halfrican American. Rush Limbaugh even claimed, The last thing that he is is
African-American. We also created a new category, the Friedman Unit, that
shows New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman predicting a
settling of the Iraq situation "within the next six months" over a period of
almost four years.
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The Neoconservative Influence timeline focuses on neoconservatives in
government this week, especially on neoconservatives' giving classified
information to Israel. Douglas Feith was fired over a scandal about his passing
classified information to Israel, Paul Wolfowitz advocated selling the Israelis
air-to-air missiles, even though they had previously resold similar missiles to
China, and Michael Leeden was thought so untrustworthy that Colonel Oliver North
wanted him polygraphed regularly.
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The Loss of Civil Liberties Timeline continues to expand its coverage of the
origins of the state secrets privilege. This week there are additional entries
documenting how the victims relatives tried to re-open "US v Reynolds" in 2003
when they realized they had been cheated half a century before.
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The 9/11 Timeline has more about the day of 9/11, including the FAAs
response, another passenger phone call from Flight 93, and WTC 7. In addition,
there is a new entry about one of the alleged fifth hijacks whose take-off was
aborted on the day of the attacks.
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Lastly, the Iraq under Occupation Timeline notes that CENTCOM thought the
country was sliding towards chaos in October 2006. It also documents the late
2003 plan for Iraq announced by Coalition Provision Authority administrator L.
Paul Bremer, who chose to reveal the details in an op-ed in the Washington
Post.
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