Are you sitting down? The Specter staffer who inserted the clause into the Patriot Act giving the president new power to by-pass the Senate in appointing U.S. Attorneys ... was rewarded by becoming a U.S Attorney! Karen Tumulty has more here and here.
What ISIS Thinks of 'What ISIS Really Wants'
Graeme Wood discusses his groundbreaking investigation of the Islamic State.


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