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DoD Hires LA Times Columnist Who Belittled Al Qaeda Threat -- Weekly Standard

LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks once wrote that al Qaeda was "little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs, well financed and intermittently lethal but relatively limited in their global and regional political pull. On 9/11, they got lucky. . . . Thanks to U.S. policies, al Qaeda has become the vast global threat the administration imagined it to be in 2001.” She's now headed to Obama's Defense Department.

An email floating around the Hill:

LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks recently announced to her readers that she will “soon be starting a stint at the Pentagon as an advisor to the undersecretary of Defense for policy.” In her time in academia and as a newspaper columnist, some of the more interesting policy positions Ms. Brooks has advocated include:

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