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A good Dutch recreation of the Malaysia MH-17 shootdown, plus knockdowns of the NY Times bin Laden conspiracy

This video report strikes me as a model of how to inform the public, and how to explain an investigation’s findings.

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This video report strikes me as a model of how to inform the public, and how to explain an investigation’s findings.

Speaking of investigations, both Mark Bowden and Peter Bergen (the latter a colleague of mine at New America) have written persuasive responses to a lousy New York Times Magazine article that claims we just don’t know how bin Laden was killed.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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