Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the historic battlefields surrounding Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While recounting the unease he felt about this potential sniper’s nest, Baughman recalled: ‘For several years the President tended to take security measures a little too lightly for my personal taste. But by a kind of wordless proselytizing I had gradually gotten him to change his mind slightly. […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] £20.00, h/b John Newsinger In 2015 Sarah Chayes published an account of her time in Afghanistan where, among other things, she had worked for the occupying International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF). Her book, Thieves of State, was a devastating insider’s indictment of the American occupation. British and American troops were not in Afghanistan […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] that he and his supporters were absolutely prepared to move the United States in a decidedly authoritarian direction to hold onto power. McFarland was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor, working under General Michael Flynn, who was ‘part of Trump’s inner circle’. (p. 141) One of the people she brought into the administration, with Flynn’s […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] a continuation of ‘A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election’ in Lobster 73.1 What happened to the external management review of Broadmoor high security hospital that Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had commissioned, once the Conservative Party had left office? The report was sent to his office in April 1997, shortly […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything […]