Tag: concealment

They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We? YES, WE SHOULD!

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Ron Avery Critique of a NY Times article published April 20, 2023 by Jay Kirk entitled: “They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We?“ Let’s start with the overall character of this NYT’s article. I would call it a short story about the experiences suffered by three Connecticut State Police Crime Scene Investigators who claim to have been involved with the Sandy Hook Mass Shooting investigation. This short story is about 14 pages long with seven photos making it quite lengthy. Little of the story has to do…

Interview with Philip Shenon: Lessons from the Uncensored History of the 9/11 Commission

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Philip Shenon and Ryan Goodman What follows is an interview by Ryan Goodman with Philip Shenon, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. The interview touches on the internal operations and informal powers of the 9/11 commission, and how these dynamics may work with an independent commission to investigate the January 6 attack.   Goodman:One of the many lessons I drew from The Commission is the potential outsized role of senior staff positions – individuals who received less public scrutiny but who were highly…

The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’

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The Guardian More than a year into the pandemic, some people prefer to keep wearing their face mask – even outdoors in public She’s been fully vaccinated for three weeks, but Francesca, a 46-year-old professor, does not plan to abandon the face mask that she’s come to view as a kind of “invisibility cloak” just yet. “Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker or maybe it’s because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world, but it has been such a relief to feel…