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How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2023
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
– Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907]

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December 21, 2023
The Deep State’s Control of NATO and Congress
Longtime readers of my blog know that I have long recommended a book entitled National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon, professor of law at Tufts University and former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. Glennon’s thesis, to which I subscribe, is a simple but ominous one: The U.S. national-security branch of the federal government — that …
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