Understatement of the Day

—By Mother Jones

| Tue Jul. 24, 2007 9:15 AM PDT

From Daniel Benjamin (Brookings Institution) and Steve Simon (Council on Foreign Relations) in their op-ed in today's New York Times, which suggests that we use the CIA to root out Al Qaida in Pakistan:

While the C.I.A. doesn't have an unblemished record...

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— Nick Baumann

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