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Jan. 21st, 2007 02:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchGlenn Reynolds links to a piece from one of the guys from Powerline, revealing a cover up of the 1973 murder - arranged by Yasser Arafat - of then US Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo Noel, US Deputy Chief of Mission Curtis Moore, and Belgian Embassy charge d'affairs Guy Eid.
it's an excellent piece of journalism by Scott Johnson.
and before the Cynic takes over and the bemoaning of perpetual government corruption and expedience begins, read this next bit as well, because it stands as a staunch reminder that governments are made up of individuals and many of them - more than we perhaps believe, and certainly will ever know - genuinely do what is right simply because it is right to do so. and that they are still with us.
Marc Susser and Edward Keefer. two guys quietly doing it right.
emphases mine.
it's an excellent piece of journalism by Scott Johnson.
Until last spring. In June 2006, the [State] department's Office of the Historian quietly posted an authoritative summary of the events dated June 1973. The source of the summary is not given, but the CIA had previously produced it in redacted form in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Prepared by the CIA on the basis of intercepted communications, it baldly states: "The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasser Arafat."
and before the Cynic takes over and the bemoaning of perpetual government corruption and expedience begins, read this next bit as well, because it stands as a staunch reminder that governments are made up of individuals and many of them - more than we perhaps believe, and certainly will ever know - genuinely do what is right simply because it is right to do so. and that they are still with us.
When I inquired into the posting of the document, I was referred to the State Department's Office of the Historian. Marc Susser is head of the office; Edward Keefer is the general editor of the Foreign Relation series in which the 1973 document was published. Susser and Keefer explained that the document was deemed of interest in the context of American relations with Sudan. They included it for publication in fulfillment of the office's statutory obligation to document American foreign relations, after thirty years, without input from any policymaker at State. They first learned of the document's wider interest beyond the context of American-African relations when they read Caroline Glick's January 2, 2007, Jerusalem Post column on the subject.
Marc Susser and Edward Keefer. two guys quietly doing it right.
emphases mine.
