@emptywheel it's also a problem with Leahy Law vetting for US military training programs. US ends up accidentally training rights abusers.
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@johnsifton Well, if McRaven gets his way, we'll stop the pretense, right? It's better to train them, according to him, bc ... not sure why.
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@emptywheel@Krhawkins5 if Google can catch one-off typographical errors, then why can't the State Department computers?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@emptywheel Love it. Makes me think of telling my students to remember to use all spellings for "Mujahideen" when doing Lexis searches :) -
@RBrulin@emptywheel The ones that used to get me were Taliban/Taleban, Pashtun/Pathan/Pakhtun & singular/plurals of Arabic transliterations -
@timmathews@emptywheel Oh yeah, those are tricky :) and then of course there is good ol' Qhaddafi ....
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@emptywheel they wouldnt have had that problem if the names had ben like bill or bob, sally or suzyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@emptywheel really, @emptywhyl ?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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