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<title><![CDATA[Spencer Ackerman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14431.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Spencer Ackerman]]></description><category domain="14431">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani's Victory Over Fear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mamdani-s-victory-over-fear/ar-AA1KnaXA?cvid=780fc0c6a0774762f5fb87ef1afc4c84&amp;ei=5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political establishment threw the whole post-9/11 playbook against the Democratic nominee for mayor, and came up empty.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Kept Screwing Up Iraq--Over and Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-biden-kept-screwing-up-iraq-over-and-over-and-over-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just vote to authorize the Iraq war for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'peace and security.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He got it wrong at every stage, from invasion to occupation to a withdrawal that led to ISIS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Green Beret Killed by SEALs Over Illicit Cash]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-beret-discovered-seals-illicit-cash-then-he-was-killed</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Logan Melgar hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t had a drink on June 4.The Green Beret sergeant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s dry day became a key to unraveling the narrative spun by the elite Navy commandos whom military investigators now suspect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' killed him, officials familiar with the case said.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP on Russia Probe Not That Interested in Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-on-houses-trump-russia-probe-not-that-interested-in-trump-or-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In front of cable news cameras and on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Twitter, the tensions between'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' House intelligence committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Trump-Russia investigation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are pointed and more than occasionally nasty.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How ISIS Crippled Al-Qaida]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/how-isis-crippled-al-qaida</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On 5 February, Jordanian officials confirmed that the intellectual godfather of al-Qaida, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, had been released from prison. Though he is little known in the west, Maqdisi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s importance in the canon of radical Islamic thought is unrivalled by anyone alive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Things the NSA Would Like You to Believe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The National Security Agency is telling its story like never before. Never mind whether that story is, well, true.On Sunday night, CBS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 60 Minutes ran a remarkable piece that provided NSA officials, from director Keith Alexander to junior analysts, with a long, televised forum to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Runs for Obama's 2nd Term]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/romney-obama-second-term/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen.
                                        
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							<title><![CDATA[The Network That Powers the U.S. Army]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realcleartechnology.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Playing Games Makes You Live LongerHands-On With The Nexus Q Media Streaming DeviceNew Details On The iPhone 5Product Review: Dell XPS 14BlackBerry Disconnect Gets LouderDNA Chip Could Prevent Athletes' Heart-related DeathsHow Companies Track Everything You Do Online3D Visualization...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Panetta Doctrine: Declare Victory, Don't Leave]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/the-panetta-doctrine-declare-victory-dont-go-home/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leon Panetta is setting the mother of all goals for himself at the  Pentagon. He began his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' first tour of Iraq and Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as defense  secretary with an earthquake of a declaration: the U.S. is thisclose from finally destroying al-Qaida.It sounds almost hysterically optimistic....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Doctrine, Revisited]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine_revisited</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Ackerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several weeks before President Barack Obama announced an escalation of the Afghanistan War at West Point, a group of journalists and think-tankers met for dinner at the Washington, D.C., embassy of a NATO ally to debate war strategy. Chatham House rules apply to the dinner, so I'm not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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