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The Center for American Progress has a new version available of its measure of elite opinion of the issue of global terrorism, The Terrorism Index.  Among the many interesting findings are:

A significantly less pessimistic view of the “war on terror,” with 21% of the experts now saying the U.S. is “winning” compared with only 6% [...]

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DIA Gets News Counterintelligence Arm
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