NPR can be truly maddening. On the other hand, a show like 'All Things Considered' can be read as an unfiltered look into the disinformation machines, operated with great skill by politicians of all stripes. ATC's Melissa Block is an especially helpful conduit, considering that she never asks the obvious or departs from a script that is so narrow that it, itself, seems like it might have been crafted by Eric Holder.

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In a Time Magazine article TPMuckraker helpfully links us to, Bob Baer makes many relevant points, but among these is one pertinent question:
This leads to the question of what the CIA saw in Blackwater that the public still has not. 
I think I can answer that question: Porter Goss hired them.

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