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Steven Brizel's avatar

This administration is loaded with supporters of Hamas Hezbollah and Iran . I have no no doubt that someone in this administration which slavishly follows Obama’s directives vis a vis Israel directed that this intelligence data be leaked but in a manner that either directly implicated senior White House officials or a staffer known for his or her support of Iran who was willing to become the Daniel Ellsberg of 2024.You can bet on it that any “investigation” will be of the “round up the usual suspects” variety and that Netanyahu would never discuss serious and actual operational plans with any of these senior officials who he views as naive and mistaken in their views on the war

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Susan G's avatar

Re today's "The Back Page". Norman Mailer is a personal favorite, and I agree "we could use his wild intellectual courage today". Mailer, attracted to Pat Robertson, might well have been attracted to the 2024 Trump populism and to his alignment with Bobby Kennedys namesake son.

Yet he reporter elects to sit this one out, acknowledging that a Harris victory would gut what remains of the First Amendment. Your last paragraph just confuses me.The simple idea I hold as a certitude is the following: "...a Republic if you can keep it". Without a robust First Amendment, i will witness the country's

slow decline to soft totalitarianism. My reservations about Trump are meaningless compared to that. Will the reporter really sit it out, not acting on the simple ides which are your certitudes?

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