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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ Constitutional government in the United States is alive and well. At least, that is the hopeful conclusion of Jack Goldsmith’s stimulating new book “Power and Constraint.” Goldsmith, a former head of the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, disputes the widely accepted view that traditional checks and balances have been diminished by the war on terrorism. According to the conventional account, the post-9/11 national security bureaucracy produced waterboarding, detention without trial, unlawful surveillance and other anomalies, while the enforcement of existing legal norms was crippled, oversight bodies were passive and uncommunicative, secrecy was rampant and impunity prevailed. This is a superficial and erroneous perspective, Goldsmith contends.
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China Daily (China)

Renata Nunziante teaches Italian in Beijing. Lately, because of a hectic work schedule, her shoulder has been feeling heavy, with occasional aches.
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CNN (US)

The U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed to a deal that will put Afghan troops in charge of deeply unpopular night raids on local homes by special forces in Afghanistan. FULL STORY