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Nuclear Unicorn

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4. In the rest of the article the reporter notes how even a pro-war GOPer senator was being monitored.

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:44 AM

Sep 2013

If not national security we are left to wonder: why? It reeks of power-mongering.

As a side note -- Cute story. I'm not the hob-knobbing sort but I genuinely would have adored such an event.

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Art Buchwald; humorist, subversive threat?!?! [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 OP

Bwahaaaa, I like your style. I agree, it couldn't possibly happen today..bwahaaaaaaaaaaaa monmouth3 Sep 2013 #1

Buchwald opposed the War for Profit in Vietnam. Octafish Sep 2013 #2

LOL! pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #3

In the rest of the article the reporter notes how even a pro-war GOPer senator was being monitored. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #4

I lived in McLean at the time, and it was natural for the locals to to attend :) pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #7

Why spy on Senator Howard Baker? Here ya go: Lars39 Sep 2013 #8

So the NSA isn't really defending Americans, it's defending Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #9

Well said! Lars39 Sep 2013 #10

Used to read Art every day on the bus to work in D.C. oldandhappy Sep 2013 #5

LBJ, father of the Great Society, was a "neo-con" ProSense Sep 2013 #6

They are very concerned about their own security The Second Stone Sep 2013 #11