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Dave Schuler of The Glittering Eye tapped me with the 123 Meme. The Rules of the 123 Meme are as follows:

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Dave had a fine selection, a book`that coincidentally sits closely nearby on my own shelf. As a result, I decided to go with what was nearest in terms of the unshelved,” handy”, unread bookpile from which I pick up and read at odd moments or choose from to read seriously from start to finish. At the top of the pile is Robert Dallek’s Nixon and Kissinger:Partners in Power. The anecdote has an eerie timeless quality about it:

When Nixon and Kissinger told Hoover that the May 9 and earlier leaks”were more than damaging, they were potentially dangerous to national security,”  Hoover  began tapping the phones of three national security officials identified by Henry – Henry Davidson, Morton Halperin, and Hal Sonnenfeldt – and one other Defense Department officer, Colonel Robert Pursley, a Laird assistant. Within days, two other NSC staff members came under scrutiny as well: Richard Moose and Richard Sneider. FBI agents also began listening to the phone conversations of four journalists- Beecher and Hedrick Smth of the Times, and an English correspondent based in Washington, Henry Brandon of the Sinday Times of London, and CBS newsman Marvin Kalb.

By the power vested in me by the 123 Meme, I infect the following bloggers:

Shane Deichman of Wizards of Oz

Bruce Kesler of Democracy Project

Dave Davison of Thoughts Illustrated

Cheryl Rofer of Whirledview

Dr. Daniel Nexon of The Duck of Minerva

Posting is slow this week because I am working on a couple of projects, including the Science, Strategy and War roundtable that will occur at Chicago Boyz, starting next Monday. I also have a number of important papers to read for several friends and I am taking tonight off from blogging in order to catch up on these commitments. 

Catching up on a paper that needs to be returned to an author, email and then recent comments. And then after that is finished, some light blogging.

Have an ISP issue going on; hopefully temporary. Blogging may or may not be light.

I noticed today that the spam filter had caught some legitimate comments that should have simply been held for moderation due to having more than two links embedded.

For those who have not seen their comment appear,  you have my apology and  can rest assured that I did not delete or censor you. If it happens in the future, drop me a note so I can mark you as “not spam” in the filter plug-in.