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	<title><![CDATA[The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-atran/the-moral-failure-of-our_b_230050.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA["The temptation to tell a Chief in a great position the things he most
likes to hear," Winston Churchill famously cautioned, "is the
commonest explanation of mistaken policy." But perhaps an even greater
failure of a leader is refusal to hear what he doesn't like. A number
of competent government officials, from the White House to U.S.
mission in Afghanistan, have told me that this attitude was their
greatest frustration: for example, in trying to get the administration
to tone down its promotion of public hysteria over...]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-11T16:30:00-04:00</date_published>
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