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NBC DUMPS ANN (New York Post)
January 6, 2009, 5:24 am EST
CONTROVERSIAL con servative Ann Coulter blew a gasket yesterday when the "Today" show abruptly canceled an appearance on the day her new book about the Obamas comes out. The cancellation sparked reports that she had been "banned for life" from...
NBC bumps Ann Coulter, denies conspiracy (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
January 5, 2009, 11:10 pm EST
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.
NBC bumps Ann Coulter, denies conspiracy (Reuters)
January 5, 2009, 10:06 pm EST
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.
NBC bumps Ann Coulter, denies conspiracy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
January 5, 2009, 9:52 pm EST
NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.
BAD 'DAY' FOR ANN COULTER (New York Post)
January 5, 2009, 7:53 pm EST
CONTROVERSIAL conservative Ann Coulter blew a gasket yesterday when the "Today" show abruptly canceled an appearance on the day her new book about the Obamas comes out. The cancellation sparked reports that she had been "banned for life" from NBC...
Ann Coulter Kicked Off NBC's 'Today Show' (Editor & Publisher)
January 5, 2009, 7:34 pm EST
NEW YORK Was columnist and author Ann Coulter merely cancelled for one day -- or, as Matt Drudge headlines it at his blog, "banned for life" due to alleged untruths in her new book?
Standing up to Bush (Las Vegas Sun)
January 5, 2009, 11:42 am EST
Recurring themes of the Bush administration — secrecy and low regard for science — are prevalent in two White House actions that are now stimulating considerable opposition.
Patrick Tyler's 'A World of Trouble': an opinionated look at the Middle East (Austin American-Statesman)
January 3, 2009, 12:09 pm EST
Patrick Tyler is a veteran foreign correspondent who has worked the Middle East and China beats since the mid '80s, first for The Washington Post and then for The New York Times.


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In our interviews, some military officers repeatedly invoked the analogy of Desert One and the failed 1980 hostage rescue mission in Iran.146 They were dubious about a quick strike approach to using Special Operations Forces, which they thought complicated and risky. Such efforts would have required bases in the region, but all the options were unappealing. Pro-Taliban elements of Pakistan's military might warn Bin Ladin or his associates of pending operations. With nearby basing options limited, an alternative was to fly from ships in the Arabian Sea or from land bases in the Persian Gulf, as was done after 9/11. Such operations would then have to be supported from long distances, overflying the airspace of nations that might not have been supportive or aware of U.S. efforts.147

However, if these hurdles were addressed, and if the military could then operate regularly in the region for a long period, perhaps clandestinely, it might attempt to gather intelligence and wait for an opportunity. One Special Operations commander said his view of actionable intelligence was that if you "give me the action, I will give you the intelligence."148 But this course would still be risky, in light both of the difficulties already mentioned and of the danger that U.S. operations might fail disastrously. We have found no evidence that such a long-term political-military approach for using Special Operations Forces in the region was proposed to or analyzed by the Small Group, even though such capability had been honed for at least a decade within the Defense Department.

Therefore the debate looked to some like bold proposals from civilians meeting hypercaution from the military. Clarke saw it this way. Of the military, he said to us, "They were very, very, very reluctant."149 But from another perspective, poorly informed proposals for bold action were pitted against experienced professional judgment. That was how Secretary of Defense Cohen viewed it. He said to us: "I would have to place my judgment call in terms of, do I believe that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, former commander of Special Forces command, is in a better position to make a judgment on the feasibility of this than, perhaps, Mr. Clarke?"150

Beyond a large-scale political-military commitment to build up a covert or clandestine capability using American personnel on the ground, either military or CIA, there was a still larger option that could have been considered-invading Afghanistan itself. Every official we questioned about the possibility of an invasion of Afghanistan said that it was almost unthinkable, absent a provocation such as 9/11, because of poor prospects for cooperation from Pakistan and other nations and because they believed the public would not support it. Cruise missiles were and would remain the only military option on the table.

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