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Marc Ambinder
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Senior fellow | Author of The Brink | meditation, national security, cats,πŸ––,πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ. Policy .
California, USAlinktr.ee/MarcAmbinderJoined January 2008

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As always, Helen is great at tracking flu. The current news is good, as she outlines, but not a reason to dismiss influenza as an ongoing, annual threat.
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1. A #flu 🧡: Activity continued its sharp decline in the week ending Jan 21. It's barely over the epidemic threshold at this point nationally; in 6 regions it's below it. But for the fact that we've seen little #fluB activity, it would be tempting to guess flu season is over.
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We have amazing people that work . While on a protection assignment at a Hawaii beach, Special Agent Akos noticed a young man in a small group struggling in the water & ultimately falling below. He rushed to the boy & with another good Samaritan prevented a tragedy.
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Today we are honoring Special Agent Joseph Akos, Jr., a rescue swimmer, who received the Secret Service Director’s Lifesaving Award for his actions that resulted in saving the life of a 15 year-old boy in Hawaii.
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Also a reference to the bespoke "Joint Intelligence Brigade," and its "screeners." JIB = JSOC J2's main intelligence analysis and exploitation directorate. JSOC _and_ and the GFC were involved here. But the military would rather not concede the JSOC part.
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One of the first things I had the privilege of doing when I was an intern for ABC News was to brief Barbara Walters about some breaking news event. (The Concorde explosion, I think.). It was cool. She was grand. Took no shit from anyone and lived a marvelous life.
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The story of journalists cooperating with the government in various and sundry manners... old as the hills. And the tenor really didn't change until after Vietnam, Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
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TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER Back in the day, CBS allowed CIA operatives into its booth overlooking the UN Security Council chamber. From that vantage point an expert lipreader would scrutinize the Soviet delegation’s whispered consultations.
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My overall assessment so far - lots of fascinating insight into how intelligence and national security worked in the 60s ... not much new about Oswald and the assassination. Read through my tweets for the highlights.
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The new Kennedy assassination documents: archives.gov/press/press-re
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