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Since Lemann's claim to fame is that he wrote a 408-page book explaining to prep-school-educated liberals that many black people used to live in the South, this refusal to address basic sociology is glaring.
While the article explains that the excitable British press has gone ballistic over the NSA's refusal to share the files' contents, the real story is the NSA practice of monitoring electronic transmissions around the globe and screening them for targeted search terms like "Saddam Hussein."
(Lexington also praises House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Christopher Cox "for his cheerful refusal to be a hack or a firebrand."
Two of these six agreed to participate (non-participants cited a lack of time and inability to give access to the facility as reasons for refusal).
It was the sex and Clinton's refusal to admit his indiscretions in front of everyone.