Showing posts with label James Kirchick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Kirchick. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

"the Bergdahl trade opened a kind of Pandora’s box..."

January 28, 2015 al Qaeda , James Kirchick 0 Comments
Freed Al Qaeda Agent Was Part Of Proposed Swap For Jailed Americans

Shane Harris and James Kirchick, Jan. 25, 2015, Daily Beast

The proposed swap involving the al Qaeda agent, Ali Saleh Al-Marri, raises troubling questions about whether the Bergdahl trade opened a kind of Pandora’s box, signaling to foreign governments that they can pressure the United States to make concessions on terrorism by trading American prisoners abroad for dangerous extremists held in the United States.

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Bought lib mag, The New Republic

December 11, 2014 Chris Hughes , Daily Beast 0 Comments
The Rise And Fall Of Chris Hughes And Sean Eldridge, America's Worst Gay Couple

James Kirchick, Dec. 8, 2014, The Daily Beast

How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution, while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York’s 19th Congressional District. Last week, the 31-year-old Hughes forced the resignations of both the editor and literary editor of The New Republic, whose 100th anniversary he presided over last month at a star-studded gala in Washington, D.C.

In protest of the magazine’s newly ensconced CEO’s plan to transform TNR into a “vertically integrated digital media company,” the majority of the magazine’s senior and contributing editors resigned.

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