Obama's FDR Moment
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D.B. Grady is the coauthor of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. He can be found online at dbgrady.com. More
D.B. Grady is the pseudonym of author David Brown. He is coauthor of The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Wiley, 2012) and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (Wiley, 2013). He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
When the Afghan worker called to me, I was more curious than anxious.It was just after one o'clock in the morning, and double-digits below zero. He stood in the doorway of the ramshackle kitchen like a schoolboy on the lookout, his demeanor more mischievous than malevolent. I always had a friendly relationship with the locals, and there was something inside that he very much wanted me to see.Like most buildings on camp, the kitchen was assembled with little more… More »
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