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    1. Political-espionage thrillers like "Homeland" seem to always get key details of how national-security stuff works wrong. So I was psyched about the team-up of Bill Clinton and James Patterson for the novel "The President is Missing," which portended verisimilitude. But... /1
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    just 13 pages into the novel, we encounter this: /2
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      Context is a president ordering a mission to protect a terrorist. But 798 is about the unauthorized disclosure of info about surveillance techniques & it's from the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, not the Espionage Act. [pushes nerd glasses up bridge of nose and sighs] /3
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