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- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was either write or die for me.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
- Iraq
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.
- Artillery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.
- Facto
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- Nov 07, 2020
In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.
- Combat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.
- Pitch
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020