2. June 2008 by Dan Verton.

By OLIVIER GUITTA
Published: June 02, 2008

In just three years Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s controversial president, has become a household name. It is worth noting that for a man whose name is mentioned so much, not much is known about him and his past. Indeed, even his official biography lacks a lot of information. But grasping who is Ahmadinejad and where he comes from proves how dangerous this man really is.

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9. May 2008 by Dan Verton.

Ridge on Risk Management

Dan Verton followed the nation’s first Secretary of Homeland Security to a government-only presentation at the Lexis-Nexis Government Users Conference and sat down with one of his top advisors to bring you this 5-part series.

Starts May 19 and runs all week. Homeland Security Television.

Watch the trailer Now

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8. May 2008 by Dan Verton.

Memo to the media: Have you hosted on air the person who told Rumsfeld at military analyst meeting, “You are the leader. You are our guy”?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200805070008?f=h_top

Summary: In an audio recording of an April 18, 2006, Pentagon meeting attended by several media military analysts, one of the attendees tells then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he would “personally love” for Rumsfeld “to take the offensive, to just go out there and just crush these people so that when we go on, we’re — forgive me — we’re parroting, but it’s what has to be said. It’s what we believe in, or we would not be saying it.” He adds: “And we’d love to be following our leader, as indeed you are. You are the leader. You are our guy.” Will media outlets try to determine if they have hosted the speaker?

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