“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,” publisher Malcolm S. Forbes once said. In Hillary Clinton’s case, because she is so nasty to agents and hostile toward law
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“Russia31 and China approach Western INGOs with the assumption that their performance and work product are directed by and directly serve the state. This assumption matches the assumption in the West that non-Western NGOs are surely engaged in state-sponsored and underwritten activities, and nearly always include intelligence gathering in their operations.”
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
“Man aspires to greatness, but all too often his hopes are submerged by the primitive instinct to survive at any cost.”
― Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
― Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
“A wide variety of defense and intelligence organizations continue to engage directly with scholars,37 including the US Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative.”
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
“Contrary to popular belief at the time, German armies were far from total mechanization. In Sixth Army alone, more than twenty-five thousand horses moved guns and supplies.”
― Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
― Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
“New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (who regularly met with former president Barack Obama) has great access around the world. He is one of the few with some authority to exchange messages at every level.”
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
― Spin Wars and Spy Games: Global Media and Intelligence Gathering
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